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"We challenge the notion that any culture is rooted in a singular, uncontaminated tradition." Tanner Humanities Center's Scott Black and Robert Carson on global Great Books in the Salt Lake Tribune sltrib.com/opinion/commen…

After 9/11, Susan Sontag "passed over the opportunity to express sympathy ... and instead opted for swift, uncompromising scrutiny of the attack’s historical context and political exploitation." Hollis Robbins and I on Sontag the-american-interest.com/2019/11/29/sus…

Superb. More recitations from heads of state, please.

Helen Vendler and Fredric Jameson: Could/would they have done what they did, with email and smartphones at the start of their careers? That gut feeling of No is a pessimism without answer.

a young Fred Jameson from the Haverford College yearbook of 1954 (cc Gus Stadler, coal, old fustic)

The late Maggie Smith in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads monologue, "Bed among the Lentils," is brilliant. youtu.be/MTgyYqY3XTE?si…

As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the James Baldwin Review, Professor William J. Maxwell reflects on Baldwin and Sontag's shared inspiration. His essay explores their contributions to American queer literature, revealing their enduring relevance. bit.ly/4eGMPOi

Interesting times at Johns Hopkins. jhunewsletter.com/article/2024/1…

Simon During on the conservative turn in literary studies, which is sure to be as widely misunderstood as its founding figure, TS Eliot: chronicle.com/article/the-co…

I have healed the division between the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. We are all early modern now.

.Hollis Robbins on the best gift to first-gen students: "the classroom’s impersonal nature is designed as a space where students can shed their social identities and engage purely as minds… without the weight of social dynamics coloring every interaction" chronicle.com/article/the-cl…

There is nothing so harmful as superficial knowledge of a subject. "A little learning is a dangerous thing", as Shakespeare said

On behalf of National Humanities Alliance, Scott Black and I (Tanner Humanities Center) with Brendan Gillis (American Historical Association) discussed the importance of the humanities w/ staffers of Mike Lee, Senator John Curtis, Congressman Blake Moore, and Rep. Celeste Maloy. National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. National Archives, and Title IV benefits all Utahns!

This was great fun! tannerhumanities.podbean.com/e/oscar-wilde-…

"I'm in my this era, I'm in my that era." Have you ever considered that historical periods are arbitrary units that obscure the underlying continuity of structural processes?

me whenever I see birds: wow it's just like The Birds (1963)

What does Bloodborne have to do with literary and artistic modernism? Almost everything, according to Nathan Wainstein's book, Grant Us Eyes, discussed in the NYT. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/art…

When you enjoy reading a book, is it the book itself that gives enjoyment, or the experience of reading it? Bryan Counter and Nathan Wainstein discuss aesthetic experience, on The Virtual Jewel Box tanner.utah.edu/podcast/aesthe…