Charlie Tyson is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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The Review | Essay
Our ways of thinking about thinking are a product of postwar business culture.
The Review | Essay
A defense of humanistic learning against quantification retreats into mysticism.
The Review
In Christine Smallwood’s story of scholarly precarity, what the academy wastes above all is human potential.
The Review
Is academe biased against conservatives? No: Reality is.
The Review
Sianne Ngai is the most influential literary theorist of her generation.
The Chronicle Review
Academe is awash in refrains about its own importance. Is anyone feeling better yet?
The Review
Being radical used to take a lot of work. Now all one needs to do is succumb, conspicuously, to hopelessness.
The Review
E.O. Wilson on the next big thing, the gladiatorial nature of academe, and the world beyond the human senses.
The Review
They exist to train aspiring artists in how to sound sophisticated — not how to create art.
