Critical Theory and the Newest Left
Corporations are not defanging a threatening ideology but welcoming it back home from a field trip.
The Desk
by
Mike Rose
Posted on June 24, 2021
Image: A poster from the 1950s science fiction adventure series Space Patrol.
These were places where I could imagine anything, be anybody. Space travel was new, fresh, a laboratory of possibility.
A Stacked Deck
What makes someone a likely Substack star is an ability to cultivate one-way, parasocial relationships with readers.
All Eyes on Me
Sometimes irony is a painful awareness of our own absurdity.
Wordsworth and the Paradox of Self-Writing
Posted on June 10, 2021
Image: Lake District, England. Via Wikimedia Commons.
When I give myself over to the self-writers I love most, I am transformed.
Let Us Now Praise the Periodical Cicadas
The pulsating song of billions of seventeen-year cicadas.