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Category Archive: Public Intellectuals?

Poems on the University

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1. Poem on the Xerox Machine The Xerox machine is not printing currently, But feel free to try […]

Public Intellectuals?Teacher, Teacher Susan Harlan

David Brooks Writes a Yelp Review of the New Thai Restaurant

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The new Thai restaurant, Pad Basil, is a great and searing contribution to the dining options on Tenth […]

Hate!Public Intellectuals? Jordan Alexander Stein

How Email Ruined My Life

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(For Tom)   I got my first email account the fall I started graduate school, in 1995. Even […]

Hate!Public Intellectuals? Catherine Zimmer

Historians Who Look Too Much

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One of my guiding assumptions has been that if I am going to get my ass kicked while acting […]

Books You Should ReadPublic Intellectuals?Teacher, Teacher Tim Cassedy

Editing as Carework: The Gendered Labor of Public Intellectuals

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Editing Avidly is one of the primary ways I manifest the role of “public intellectual” (ugh). I think […]

Public Intellectuals? Sarah Blackwood

High Stakes Criticism: The Case for Academic Gossip

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One foggy fall day, I came across a savage review of an academic book. The book was written by someone […]

Public Intellectuals? Lili Loofbourow

On Expertise and the Public Intellectual

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According to the New York Times, I am one of the foremost experts on men crying in public […]

Public Intellectuals? Glenn Hendler

Words, Words, Words

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Scholars are in the word business. Even people who don’t work primarily with textual materials—architectural historians, say—generally get […]

Public Intellectuals? Paul Erickson

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