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Public Intellectuals?

What’s Dark about Dark Academia

Close Reading Ana Quiring - 0
One of my favorite posts on Tumblr, now a halfway defunct social blogging platform, restages with gorgeous brevity and absurdity one of the most...
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Poems on the University

Public Intellectuals? Susan Harlan - 13
1. Poem on the Xerox Machine The Xerox machine is not printing currently, But feel free to try it Later on today. We wanted you to know That we are...
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David Brooks Writes a Yelp Review of the New Thai Restaurant

Hate! Jordan Alexander Stein - 7
The new Thai restaurant, Pad Basil, is a great and searing contribution to the dining options on Tenth Avenue. It is a mind-altering account...
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How Email Ruined My Life

Hate! Catherine Zimmer - 3
(For Tom)   I got my first email account the fall I started graduate school, in 1995. Even then I had an inkling of the pressures...
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Historians Who Look Too Much

Books You Should Read Tim Cassedy - 2
One of my guiding assumptions has been that if I am going to get my ass kicked while acting in my capacity as a professor...
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Editing as Carework: The Gendered Labor of Public Intellectuals

Public Intellectuals? Sarah Blackwood - 0
Editing Avidly is one of the primary ways I manifest the role of “public intellectual” (ugh). I think editing is a relatively undertheorized intellectual...
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From the Vaults: Avidly on Little Women

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