Adam Walker

Why I Left Harvard

I sometimes post more meditative articles on this blog, and this is one of them.

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August 2025

Why Universities Are Killing the Humanities

and what comes next

Aug 28 • 

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Grace Before Reading

How to Read a Book of Poems

Aug 2 • 

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July 2025

Teaching Writing in the Age of A.I.

In Defense of Rhetoric

Jul 10 • 

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The Calling of the Academic and the Betrayal of the Academy

What is needed now

Jul 3 • 

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June 2025

Is The Waste Land Nihilistic?

Slow-Reading the Arc of Hope

Jun 27 • 

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Reading in Slow Motion

An Antidote to Digital Speed

Jun 20 • 

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Tolkien in the Valley of Silicon

Tech-lords are misreading LOTR

Jun 10 • 

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May 2025

Why literary study demands community

It takes a conversation

May 21 • 

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April 2025

How Dickinson teaches us to live

Lessons from Emily Dickinson’s Vision

Apr 27 • 

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A Cultural Excursion to Silence

At the Chapel on the Charles

Apr 19 • 

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Spring Announced

the mighty sum of things forever speaking.

Apr 12 • 

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