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John Kaag

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The Review

Nathan Glazer: ‘Students Could Be Protesting Really Big Things — Like Trump’

By John Kaag August 13, 2017

The prominent 94-year-old sociologist reflects on campus activism, affirmative action, free speech, the literary sphere, and how he views his own career.
The Chronicle Review

The Ferocity of Fandom

By John Kaag July 12, 2017

Sports spectating brings out the bigoted, sexist clannishness in us. Might it bring out something better?
The Review

Thoreau: The Wild Child at 200

By John Kaag May 7, 2017

A superb new biography vivifies not just his searching mind but his restless spirit.
The Review

Thoreau’s Cynicism, and Our Own

By John Kaag March 19, 2017

The sage of Walden distrusted government but disdained materialism and provincialism even more.
The Review

Books’ Fragile Bodies

By John Kaag December 11, 2016

We can’t save them, but we can love them.
The Review

Can Transcendence Be Taught?

By John Kaag and Clancy Martin October 7, 2016

College should prepare students not only for a rich life but also for a meaningful death.
Commentary

Big Brains, Small Minds

By John Kaag and David L. O’Hara May 13, 2016

We risk becoming a society of technological prowess and philosophical illiteracy.
The Review

America’s Hands-On Hegelian

By John Kaag March 20, 2016

Meet Henry Clay Brockmeyer, the polymath frontiersman.
The Chronicle Review

Haunted by Spirits

By John Kaag November 23, 2015

Ghosts of academics haunt a musty private library in Boston.
The Chronicle Review

The Curse of Credentials

By John Kaag April 6, 2015

Narrow interests and an obsession with efficiency threaten academe. So wrote William James — more than a century ago.

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