Robert Huddleston

Robert Huddleston is a poet and essayist. He teaches at New York University.

3 Posts

From Skies to Screens

Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.

Robert Huddleston

20 Dec 2024 · 9 min read

A protester holds up two signs condemning settler colonialism

A Fashionable Madness: The Obsession with ‘Settler Colonialism’

The works of literary critic Adam Kirsch and of novelist and memoirist Joan Didion provide a salutary rebuttal of settler colonialist theory.

Robert Huddleston

17 Oct 2024 · 14 min read

Humanism and Its Discontents

Humanism aspires to ethical universalism but in practice it is defined by what it opposes and excludes.

Robert Huddleston

16 Nov 2023 · 10 min read