In C.P. Snow’s day, literary intellectuals were the cultural elite. Now the power dynamic has been reversed: STEM dominates the culture
Read the full article which is published on Arts and Letters Daily (external link)Foucault’s critique of power and knowledge shaped poststructuralism, yet its rejection of truth risks becoming its own orthodoxy. To remain...
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
[New Entry by Ehud Krinis on July 30, 2026.] [Editor’s Note: The following new entry by Ehud Krinis replaces the...
“Associate with those you can learn from. Let friendly relations be a school of erudition, and conversation, refined teaching. Make...
"Chekhov the ingenious hack and Chekhov the latter-day master are connected by way of Chekhov the neighborhood observer"
What's with the boom in biographies of people who never existed? The strange rise of a new literary genre
