Category: Commentary
Coming of Race in the Classroom
Posted by Stone Mims | Feb 4, 2025 | Commentary | 0 |
Reflections on Greatness
Posted by Bruce Robbins | Jun 14, 2024 | Commentary | 0 |
Edward W. Said: An Unpublished Letter to the NY Ti...
Posted by Wouter Capitain | May 29, 2024 | Commentary | 0 |
AI: A view from the corporate trenches
Posted by Ira Schild | Apr 5, 2024 | Commentary | 0 |
On the Concept of Corrosive Irony with Continual R...
Posted by Matt Sandler | Feb 11, 2024 | Commentary | 0 |
The Samourai
by Franco Moretti | Jun 16, 2025 | Commentary
Introductory Note: This essay originally appeared in Italian, as the preface to a...
Read MoreComing of Race in the Classroom
by Stone Mims | Feb 4, 2025 | Commentary
You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can’t say “nigger”—that...
Read MoreReflections on Greatness
by Bruce Robbins | Jun 14, 2024 | Commentary
One thing people mean when they call something “great” is that it may not be nice. That great and...
Read MoreEdward W. Said: An Unpublished Letter to the NY Times, 1967
by Wouter Capitain | May 29, 2024 | Commentary
On June 12, 1967, immediately following the Six-Day War that resulted in the ongoing occupation of...
Read MoreAI: A view from the corporate trenches
by Ira Schild | Apr 5, 2024 | Commentary
Artificial Intelligence, judging from the attention it has garnered, is The Next Big Thing,...
Read MoreThe AI Alibi
by Nikita Shepard | Mar 30, 2024 | Commentary
Images ©2023 by Samia Pendleton, courtesy of French Institute/Alliance Française A review...
Read MoreOn the Concept of Corrosive Irony with Continual Reference to Edward Said: In Belated Memoriam, Morningside Heights, 2024
by Matt Sandler | Feb 11, 2024 | Commentary
I am quite sure I am not alone in thinking more often lately about the intellectual legacy...
Read MoreAnatomizing the Fall
by Bonnie Honig | Dec 30, 2023 | Commentary
“I beg the Court to let me cut into the apple” Paul Biegler (James Stewart), Anatomy of a...
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