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25.6.26

Hannah Arendt Bibliography for a Course at the New School The Life of the Mind, 206: Thinking

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I stumbled upon Hannah Arendt’s course bibliography from when she taught “The Life of the Mind” at the New School in 1974–1975. The course ...
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9.4.26

What Makes a Film an Aesthetic Experience?

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A truly aesthetic experience of film does not begin with the question of whether a movie is “great.” It begins earlier, in the conditions un...
3.4.26

The Wounded Christ and the Doubting Self: A Humanist’s Approach

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I mean, I think anyone who grew up in the Christian Church—especially in a church that displayed the crucified Christ, the corpus, the body ...
22.2.26

Theater Review: Every Brilliant Thing (Hudson Theatre, Broadway)

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On Saturday afternoon, I caught Daniel Radcliffe in Every Brilliant Thing—a one-person play (with a whole lot of “you might get drafted” aud...
17.2.26

Student manifesto: Love of Learning = Desire for Something Bigger than Yourself

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When I was a Benedictine monk , we read The Love of Learning and the Desire for God , Jean Leclercq’s masterwork on monastic culture and spi...
5.2.26

Adjuncting in Graduate School: Money Stress, Meaningful Teaching

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Let's get teaching! In the following post, I write about my time as an adjunct professor . The title might sound abrupt and professional...
4.2.26

The Fate of the Novel: A Reading of Ian Watt’s Formal Realism

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The Fate of the Novel What follows is a long-form reading of Ian Watt’s idea of “formal realism”: the narrative method by which the modern n...