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When Men Were Not Afraid
Before I fall asleep at night, I like to watch Youtube videos of Dallas Cowboys games from their Super Bowl winning 1977 season. I’m struck by the ease and confidence of the announcers. Sometimes, however, the men can be too … Continue reading
You Are Looking Live: Brent Musburger and the Architecture of the Spectacle
Brent Musburger (b. 1939) belongs to the small group of men who taught American television how to feel about sports. He worked for more than five decades across newspapers, network television, cable, and gambling media, and in each setting he … Continue reading
Thane Rosenbaum: Law, Memory, and the Limits of Liberal Order
Thane Rosenbaum (b. 1960) holds a contested place in American intellectual life because he has spent more than three decades fusing three domains that modern institutions keep apart: legal theory, Holocaust memory, and literary narrative. He works as a novelist, … Continue reading
The Network Intellectual: Michael Malice and the Migration of Ideological Authority
Michael Malice (b. 1976) works as a political commentator, satirist, podcast host, ghostwriter, and popularizer of dissident ideas, and he built nearly all of this outside the universities, newspapers, and think tanks that once produced public intellectuals. His authority rests … Continue reading
The Sovereign Voice: Stephen A. Smith and the Remaking of American Sports Media
Stephen A. Smith (b. 1967) took the role of the metropolitan newspaper columnist and remade it into the role of the omnipresent multimedia personality. His career tracks the larger reorganization of American journalism, a movement away from print institutions and … Continue reading
The Password and the Argument: Merve Emre Among Her Set
Merve Emre (b. 1985) belongs to the cohort of American critics who came up as the humanities lost their old footing and criticism migrated from the seminar room to the prestige magazine, the podcast, and the festival stage. She was … Continue reading
Tom Peters and the Reinvention of the American Corporation
Tom Peters (b. 1942) stands among the principal theorists of managerial transformation in late twentieth-century American capitalism. He worked as a consultant, author, and seminar performer, but his larger role was that of a transitional figure who reshaped how corporations … Continue reading
The Industrialization of Aspiration: Tony Robbins and the Making of Therapeutic Capitalism
Anthony Jay Robbins (né Mahavoric, born February 29, 1960) is an architect of modern self-optimization culture. He took the American self-help industry, a loose collection of inspirational books and hotel ballroom seminars, and built it into a vertically integrated global … Continue reading
Sianne Ngai and the Emotional Texture of Late Capitalism
Sianne Ngai (b. 1971) is a literary theorist whose work reorganized how scholars in the humanities describe emotion, aesthetic judgment, and the everyday feeling of life under capitalism. She built a vocabulary for the weak, compromised, and politically ambiguous affects … Continue reading
Lauren Berlant: The Theorist of Cruel Optimism
Lauren Berlant (1957–2021) was a theorist of affect, intimacy, precarity, and ordinary life. Across four decades, Berlant reshaped literary studies, queer theory, feminist thought, cultural studies, and political theory by asking a single persistent question: why do people stay attached … Continue reading