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Charlie Tyson

Charlie Tyson is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

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Stories by this Author

  • Inkstand with A Madman Distilling His Brains, ca. 1600, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Italian, probably Urbino, (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
    The Review | Essay

    The Corporatization of Creativity

    By Charlie Tyson July 24, 2023
    Our ways of thinking about thinking are a product of postwar business culture.
  • A random assortment of letterpress wood type printing blocks showing various numbers in a variety of fonts
    The Review | Essay

    Do the Numbers Lie?

    By Charlie Tyson January 27, 2022
    A defense of humanistic learning against quantification retreats into mysticism.
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    The Review

    The Apocalyptic New Campus Novel

    By Charlie Tyson March 22, 2021
    In Christine Smallwood’s story of scholarly precarity, what the academy wastes above all is human potential.
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    The Review

    Reactionary Propaganda Rides Again

    By Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson October 12, 2020
    Is academe biased against conservatives? No: Reality is.
  • The Cult of Diversity 1
    The Review

    Is Academe Awash in Liberal Bias?

    By Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson September 14, 2020
    Most people think so. They’re wrong.
  • Sianne Ngai at her home in Chicago.
    The Review

    The Professor of Gimmicks

    By Charlie Tyson June 25, 2020
    Sianne Ngai is the most influential literary theorist of her generation.
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    The Chronicle Review

    The Rise of Reassurance Lit

    By Charlie Tyson February 28, 2020
    Academe is awash in refrains about its own importance. Is anyone feeling better yet?
  • 6601 tyson fatalism zender
    The Review

    Apocalypse Chic

    By Charlie Tyson August 22, 2019
    Being radical used to take a lot of work. Now all one needs to do is succumb, conspicuously, to hopelessness.
  • E.O. Wilson in his office at Harvard.
    The Review

    A Legendary Scientist Sounds Off on the Trouble With STEM

    By Charlie Tyson May 7, 2019
    E.O. Wilson on the next big thing, the gladiatorial nature of academe, and the world beyond the human senses.
  • Art School Confidential 1
    The Review

    The Expensive Superficiality of M.F.A. Programs

    By Charlie Tyson December 9, 2018
    They exist to train aspiring artists in how to sound sophisticated — not how to create art.
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