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Category Archives: Academia
The Coalition-Proximity Rule
Graeme Wood (b. 1979) published “What ISIS Really Wants” in The Atlantic, and built the article from Bernard Haykel’s analysis. Wood took a sentence that meant one thing in Haykel’s field and let it mean another somewhere else. Inside the … Continue reading
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.: The Man Who Rebuilt the Archive
On the afternoon of July 16, 2009, a woman named Lucia Whalen stood on Ware Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, holding a cell phone. An older woman had stopped her on the sidewalk and pointed at a yellow clapboard house half … Continue reading
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Jonathan Zittell Smith: The Grass Breeder Who Remade the Study of Religion
He wanted to breed grass. Not religion. Grass. At sixteen he spent a summer on a farm, part of a program Cornell ran for city boys who thought they might want to work the land. The school made him prove … Continue reading
Thomas Scanlon
On a gray Sunday morning in February 2012, T.M. Scanlon (b. June 28, 1940) climbs the steps to Emerson Hall and finds the philosophy department overrun. Young men in ill-fitting suits pace the corridors, muttering arguments to themselves, checking their … Continue reading
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Christine Korsgaard
The telephone rings in a dormitory room at the University of Illinois. The season is early spring, 1974. The student who answers is a senior, a philosophy major, weeks into the long wait that follows graduate school applications. A man’s … Continue reading
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Kwame Anthony Appiah
The boy lay in a hospital bed in Kumasi with a fever the doctors could not break. Toxoplasmosis, though it took a sharp physician and a drug called Daraprim to name it and fight it, and even after the drug … Continue reading
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The Excluded Standpoint: The Work of Malcolm Bull
Malcolm Bull (b. 1960) holds the post of Professor of Art and the History of Ideas at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, where he teaches the history and theory of visual culture since 1900. He is a … Continue reading
The Credentialed Dissident: Jean-François Gariépy and the YouTube Era
Jean‑François Gariépy emerged from the intersection of academic neuroscience, internet subcultures, and dissident political media during the second half of the 2010s. Trained in biology and neuroscience in Québec, he completed doctoral work on respiratory neural networks at the Université … Continue reading
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Justin Murphy and the Post-Academic Scholar: A Career on the Open Internet
Justin Murphy is an American political scientist who left a permanent lectureship at the University of Southampton in 2019 to build an independent intellectual career on the internet. He took his PhD from Temple University in 2014 and held the … Continue reading
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The Problem of the Problem: Lawrence McEnerney and the Hidden Curriculum of Expert Writing
Lawrence McEnerney spent four decades teaching writing at the University of Chicago. That description undersells him. What he built, and what he taught, was a theory of how knowledge communities work. He came to Chicago in 1978 as a PhD … Continue reading
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