Edward Said’s Orientalism started a politics of blame that rapidly spread in the academy. He spent decades trying to stanch it ... more »
Helen Frankenthaler and the mainstreaming of the avant-garde. In 1950s New York, painting's culture looked like pop culture ... more »
The new literary moralism. Is this frenzy for censure and the expansion of the definition of harm how we’ll correct the inequities of our time? ... more »