William Deresiewicz on his time at Columbia School of Journalism: We were not there to think. We were there to learn a set of skills. One of them, ironically, was asking questions, just not about the profession itself: its premises, […]
William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz shares his experience on the academic job market and what he saw in his ten years at Yale
The author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite could not find another job after Yale denied him tenure. In this piece at Quillette he talks about intellectual corruption, careerism, and academic theory. A taste: For me, graduate […]