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What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

What a 1964 Book About American Anti-Intellectualism Can Teach Us About the Trump Era

Peter Balakian on Richard Hofstadter and the Current Assault on Academia

By Peter Balakian | July 9, 2025

A Century of James Baldwin

A Century of James Baldwin

Celebrating 100 Years of a Great American Mind

By Literary Hub | August 2, 2024

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Embracing Uncertainty: In Defense of Question-Seeking Criticism

Helen Molesworth on the Uses and Functionality of the Arts and Humanities

By Helen Molesworth | December 11, 2023

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

How W. E. B. Du Bois Helped Pioneer African American Humanist Thought

Christopher Cameron on the Complex Relationship Between Black Americans and the Black Church

By Christopher Cameron | July 27, 2023

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

How a Group of Intellectual Outcasts Broke Barriers in Early 20th-Century London

Nino Strachey on the Revolutionary Found Family of the Bloomsbury Group

By Nino Strachey | December 15, 2022

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

Who would you sit with at this 1972 dinner: Dylan and Vonnegut, or Cheever and Ginsberg?

By Jonny Diamond | July 26, 2022

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Michel Foucault, Against Himself

Michel Foucault, Against Himself

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