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Carlin Romano

Critic at Large (former)
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Carlin Romano, former critic at large for The Chronicle, is a professor of philosophy and humanities at Ursinus College and author of America the Philosophical (Knopf, 2012).

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Stories by this Author

  • In Defense of the Mob 1
    The Review

    How to Keep Violent Speech Off Campus

    By Carlin Romano June 17, 2018
    A common-sense proposal.
  • "Wisdom" in Chinese
    The Chronicle Review

    Ancient Chinese Wisdom on Modern Western Dilemmas

    By Carlin Romano June 5, 2016
    A popular Harvard philosophy course makes its way from the stage to the page.
  • Eco pursued scholarship with the same determination and good-natured humility as he did fiction.
    The Review

    The Irrepressible Lightness of Umberto Eco

    By Carlin Romano February 29, 2016
    His scholarship was as impressive as his fiction, and he pursued both with a good-natured humility.
  • How Literary Fame Happens 1
    The Chronicle Review

    How Literary Fame Happens

    By Carlin Romano August 24, 2015
    Why are you reading Keats but not Barry Cornwall, Austen but not Mary Brunton?
  • Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery (seated, second from right) accepts Germany’s unconditional surrender, on May 4, 1945. When did eternal war replace surrender, and why?
    The Chronicle Review

    Whatever Happened to Surrender?

    By Carlin Romano June 1, 2015
    It seems a forgotten art in an era of endless wars.
  • Hegel believed that the African mind-set invited slavery.
    The Chronicle Review

    The Toxic History of Philosophy’s Racism

    By Carlin Romano September 8, 2014
    Eurocentric accounts of the discipline have shortchanged Asian and African achievements. Peter K.J. Park is helping to change that.
  • A pro-Russia fighter takes in the damage in eastern Ukraine.
    The Chronicle Review

    Revanchism and Its Costs

    By Carlin Romano July 21, 2014
    In Ukraine, Iraq, and many other places around the globe, political philosophy’s neglected stepchild is again raising havoc.
  • DECONSTRUCTING 1
    The Chronicle Review

    Paul de Man, Deconstructed

    By Carlin Romano March 3, 2014
    Evelyn Barish’s new biography raises questions about how a scholar’s ethics should affect our reading of his work.
  • Whither Paper? 1
    The Chronicle Review

    Whither Paper?

    By Carlin Romano February 10, 2014
    Recent books highlight the counternarrative of the hard copy’s “durable glories.”
  • 6004-Chinese Characters
    The Chronicle Review

    Dao Rising: Chinese Philosophy Lifts Off in America

    By Carlin Romano September 23, 2013
    Students have long gravitated toward it, and now the Western philosophy establishment is starting to also.
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