American scholar Judith Butler has won a philosophy award, the Theodor Adorno Prize, upsetting Jewish groups who don’t want to see the Nazi refugee Adorno’s name associated with Ms. Butler. Per Ahram Online, which aggregated several news reports from around the world, a group of German scholars said, “Someone who boycotts Israel can’t Read More
Syracuse’s oft-quoted “Professor of Culture” Robert Thompson weighed in on MTV’s Skins controversy this morning on NPR, saying the last word we’ll ever need to hear on the subject. Thompson, whose official title is founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, is notorious for Read More
Yesterday, the University of Virginia released its internal audit of the Virginia Quarterly Review, ordered at the request of the school president following the July suicide of managing editor Kevin Morrissey. The review largely exonerates editor Ted Genoways, who had become a focus of the story as the media theorized that his Read More
In an interview with the Big Think, Harvard professor Louis Menand explains “the trick of writing for places like the New York Review of Books or The New Yorker“:
The general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who’s like yourself, but in a completely different discipline. So Read More
