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Off the Cuff: Is radicalism necessary? Have we gone too far?
Off the Cuff: Is radicalism necessary? Have we gone too far?
Two questions have been bugging me in the wake of Trump, campus protests, campus riots, the Women’s March, etc. The first is my title: “Is…
Adrian Rutt
Feb 4, 2017
A Note on Criticism
A Note on Criticism
“Critics, in their secret hearts, love continuities, but he who lives with continuity alone cannot be a poet.” — Harold Bloom, The Anxiety…
Adrian Rutt
Feb 1, 2017
From conversations to letters to treatises
From conversations to letters to treatises
The primacy of conversation can also be seen in the derivative forms in which the relation between question and answer is obscured…
Adrian Rutt
Feb 1, 2017
Credulity & Close-Mindedness
Credulity & Close-Mindedness
I’m finding it harder and harder to believe anything said on the internet by anyone or put out by any news, blog, or journalism outlet. And…
Adrian Rutt
Feb 1, 2017
“What happened to the public intellectual” is the Wrong Question
“What happened to the public intellectual” is the Wrong Question
The New Statesman recently published an article whose questioning title is as interesting as it is hard (or pointless) to answer: “Whatever…
Adrian Rutt
Feb 1, 2017
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