Author: chad wellmon
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Introduction to Permanent Crisis
Download and read the “Introduction” to Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age:
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The Groves of Academe are Always on Fire
This week Paul Reitter and I spoke with Len Gutkin, an editor at the Chronicle Review of Higher Education, and Merve Emre, a professor of literature at Oxford, about Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. The interview was…
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“Permanent Crisis” Lecture at St. John’s College
On June 23rd, I delivered my first in-person lecture in over a year. My hosts and the setting were ideal for talking with people and not Zoom. I introduced my new book (written with Paul Reitter) Permanent Crisis: The Humanities…
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The Crushing Contradictions of the American University
In the weeks following the U.S. presidential election in November, Twitter was aflutter with the suggestion that a Biden-Harris administration could issue an executive order canceling student-loan debt. The responses ranged from the moralizing — “Why should I pay for…
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