Archive - Pens and Poison

June 2025

The Case for Humanistic Literature

What Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain Teaches Us About Literature’s Moral Function

Jun 30 •

The Dangerous Book That Made Me Human

Rethinking Morality, History, and Empathy Through Gone With the Wind

Jun 26 •

Toni Morrison Sucks

The Case Against Replacing Literary Foundations with Identity-Driven Curricula

Jun 23 •

A History of Literary Criticism

A Century of Literary Theory, from T.S. Eliot to Judith Butler

Jun 20 •

There Is No Formula (And That’s Why You’re Failing)

Why Action Beats Advice

Jun 16 •

Just Fall in Love

What Literature Taught Me About Romantic Love in the Age of Dating Apps and Disbelief

Jun 12 •

The Moral Failure of Columbia University

My Alma Mater Betrayed Both Free Speech and Its Jewish Students

Jun 9 •

Your Chatbot is Not Tolstoy

How AI-Adapted Texts Are Destroying the Soul of English Education

Jun 5 •

College, Writing, AI—Oh, My! | Peter Biles

The Pens and Poison Podcast EP 9

Jun 4 •

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