Far Right, En Marche
January 19, 2024
France’s far right, led by Marine Le Pen, is on the march.
Robert Zaretsky
Robert Zaretsky teaches at the Honors College, University of Houston. His book Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague, was published in 2022 by University of Chicago Press.
Burdened by Books
December 21, 2021
Teaching the Great Books today means confronting futility and absurdity.
Commodify the Classics!
April 30, 2014
Older denizens who came of age when the groves of academe blossomed now worry they will soon look upon bare, ruined choirs. The assumptions we long held about higher education have one by one withered and died. This is particularly true in the liberal arts, where class ...