Academia, Love Me Back

BY TIFFANY MARTΊNEZ

Pieces of the Past as Prologue

BY AARON BARLOW When I first taught at New York City College of Technology fifteen years ago, I immediately noticed a glassed-in display of an old flatbed printing press with a dummy dressed as Ben Franklin next to it. Peering in, I saw that the press was in working condition—still is. In fact, it is…

Trainwreck on the Right: Traitors to the Founding Fathers

BY AARON BARLOW

The Remove to Representation

BY AARON BARLOW Sometime around 1970, when I told an aunt and uncle that the FBI was spying on American leftists, they turned to me in outrage and spoke in unison, “You don’t really believe that, do you?” This, from a couple who had just told me I should be willing to go fight in…

Blind at Widget College

BY STEVE KUUSISTO This, from Steve Kuusisto, author of Planet of the Blind, is worth us all reading:

‘I Sing the Body Electric’: Bob Dylan, the Nobel Prize and Academic Silos

BY AARON BARLOW What is a writer? What is a Digital Humanist? These sound like disparate questions, but they both are based on the academy of division that has grown up over the past century and more, particularly in American universities. Specializations are created and claims are staked. You’re either on the bus, as Ken…