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The Fall of the English Department
and the rise of new stewards
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October 2025
How the Right and Left Eroded the Humanities
And what comes next
Oct 22
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Mary Oliver, the "Ecocentric Mystic"(New Course)
Your Gateway to Reading More Poetry
Oct 20
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Update on My Spiritual Poetics Book
the limits of ratio-logical discourse
Oct 17
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Is the Next Renaissance Coming?
embattled humanities; anti-intellectualism; the coming change
Oct 8
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Grendel the Anti-Poet
Beowulf's monster is, above all else, an enemy of poetry
Oct 6
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Are the Humanities Our Last Defense?
How Jules Verne's lost novel imagines a world without the Humanities
Oct 3
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Beowulf as Poetry (course starting soon)
We’re about to start our next month-long course on Versed Community.
Oct 2
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Is the Smartphone Really to Blame?
Literacy & orality in the digital age
Oct 2
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September 2025
Plotinus on the Meaning of Life & Spiritual Homesickness
I spent the month of September reading Plotinus’s Enneads, two treatises per day.
Sep 29
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Is a Humanities PhD Worth It Today?
I seldom receive correspondence from graduate students, but this week was an exception.
Sep 27
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Why I Left Harvard
I sometimes post more meditative articles on this blog, and this is one of them.
Sep 17
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