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Simone Weil found Jesus Christ on the factory floor

John Fea   |  January 6, 2023

Over at Commonweal, Costică Brădăţan writes about how a year of factory work in the auto industry led French philosopher Simone Weil to Jesus Christ. Here is a taste: As Weil was processing the significance of her factory experience, she...

What happens to the students of leftists who couldn’t find jobs in academia?

John Fea   |  December 22, 2022

I’ve read a lot of Russell Jacoby over the years. I imagine his recent piece at Tablet is going to anger a lot of people. I also don’t think he cares. Whatever the case, his ideas are worth considering. Here...

Christopher Hitchens: “an émigré from England come to the New World to tell us what the universal words of our Declaration meant, and hold us to them.”

John Fea   |  December 16, 2022

Check out Matt Johnson’s piece on the late Christopher Hitchens at The Bulwark. The piece is excerpted from Johnson’s forthcoming book, How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment. Here is a taste: In...

Are intellectuals and historians “yoking their reputations to the delirious churn of outrage media?”

John Fea   |  June 21, 2022

Joseph Keegin, the editor of The Point, gives us a lot to think about in this piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Here is a taste: As academic humanities departments shed undergraduates and lose both prestige and funding, professors...

Who is Michael Lind?

John Fea   |  June 14, 2021

Over at New York Magazine, Eric Levitz reviews the work of public intellectual Michael Lind. The piece is much more nuanced than its title. Here is a taste of “The Delusions of the Radical Centrist”: …Michael Lind, has long been...

Where are today’s intellectuals?

John Fea   |  May 17, 2021

Nick Burns asks this question at The New Statesman. Here is a taste of his piece: Moments of great upheaval throughout history often produce small groups of insolent, insurgent intellectuals. These groups, often on the fringes of cultural life, mount...

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