Read Your Enemies Sometimes only a solitary family resemblance—a single argument, framework or notion—is passed from parent to progeny, yet the imprint is vivid enough. James Walker 31 Jan 2020 · 4 min read
Conservatives Aren't the Only Voices Silenced by Academia's Intellectual Orthodoxy The problem isn’t simply one of political imbalance, an absence of parity between Left and Right voices, but the extent to which humanities departments have become politicized. James Walker 4 Apr 2017 · 5 min read
The Virtues of Inwardness: Reclaiming the Life of the Mind in a Politicized World Perhaps our belief that the intellectual is synonymous with the political is less an eternal fact of human existence than a symptom of our own hyper-politicized times. James Walker 29 Aug 2016 · 11 min read
Authenticity and Experience: The Problem of Identity Politics in Literature Our culture, dominated by the 140 character limit, is particularly apt at creating tempests in teacups, each evoking an explosion of drama that exhausts itself in a mere matter of days (or in some cases a matter of hours). James Walker 4 May 2016 · 10 min read
Harold Bloom and Aesthetics in an Age of Piety Bloom believed that a new “Theocratic Age” was on the horizon — a moment in which aesthetic values and artistic forms would again be governed by a religious Weltanshauung. James Walker 8 Apr 2016 · 6 min read
