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
James Walker is an American writer and critic.
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Conservatives Aren't the 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.
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.
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).
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.