Yesterday I read this piece in the New York Times by Molly Worthen. Then I made the mistake of reading the comments thread, which...

An Open Letter to Senator Corker, Senator Alexander, and Representative Duncan: When I talk to people less pessimistic than I am about...

When the Mafia-backed entrepreneur and con man Donald Trump captured a majority of electoral college votes—although, of course, not a...

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Starting in January, and continuing through Spring 2018, I will be at the University of Alberta in Edmonton as a Fulbright Research Chair...

Recently I visited a UT class that was discussing Judith Butler. It provoked the perennial complaints about Butler’s prose—leading toward...