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...
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Who is Michael Lind?
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?
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...