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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 […]

Chris Lehmann remembers Barbara Ehrenreich

John Fea   |  September 7, 2022

We lost a great cultural critic and writer last week. I have benefited immensely over the years from Barbara Ehrenreich‘s work on social class in America. She is well-known for her 2001 book Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By […]

When do writers have time to write when they have to speak so much?

John Fea   |  June 14, 2022

Someone recently told me that I need to write more like I talk. I think this person meant it as a compliment. I thought about that advice again after I read Beeca Rothfield recent piece at Gawker. I am by […]