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The Strange Death of Literary Women
The Right Is Wrong About College
Stop Attacking Conservative Intellectuals
Poetry and Modernity w/Liza Libes
Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Zohran Mamdani Supporters
Helicopter Parenting Won’t Get Your Child into Harvard
Literary Gatekeepers Must Be Gatekept
I Could Have Died of Anorexia. Today, Girls Are Being Pushed Toward Something Worse.
I Was in a Situationship… With a Literary Agent
Taylor Swift's English Teacher Scam
No, Your Tech Job Doesn’t Matter More Than Shakespeare
Joseph Brodsky's "Odysseus to Telemachus"
The Publishing Industry Hates Conservatives
My Heart Still Belongs to Holden Caulfield
The Forgotten Value of a Literary Education
The Case for Writing Love Poems
The Great Works of Literature Would Not Be Published Today
Masha Gessen’s Gross Betrayal of the Russian-Jewish Legacy
Tertius Lydgate and the Birth of the Modern Doctor
Literature & Zionism | Ted Goldstein
No, Cartman, Wokeness Isn’t Dead
Coaching the College Essay in the Age of AI
Worried About AI? Study the Humanities
I Went from Nobody to Substack Bestseller
Don’t Believe That The American Dream Is Dead
The Screwtape Letters Changed My Life
The Case for Humanistic Literature
The Dangerous Book That Made Me Human
A History of Literary Criticism
There Is No Formula (And That’s Why You’re Failing)
The Moral Failure of Columbia University
College, Writing, AI—Oh, My! | Peter Biles
Are Women Preventing Men From Publishing Novels?
Education & Publishing | The Librarian of Celaeno
"Heterodox" Does Not Mean What You Think
Why Did We Kill the Subclause?
Cancel Culture, Comedy, and Hot Literary Takes | Baz
Liza Libes Destroys Ben Shapiro’s Reading List with Facts and Logic
Liza Takes the Political Compass Test
My Best Friend Was Palestinian
Poetry & Things | Joseph Massey
Reflections on My High School Reunion
All About Audiobooks | B.J. Harrison
Representations of Telepathy in Literature | Alex Moffett
The English Alliterative Tradition | Eric Weiskott
What Happened to the English Major?
Bilingual Poetry | Jean Pierre Rueda
The Decline of the Humanities | Yan Margolin
The Definitive List of 100 Poems to Read Before You Die
In Defense of the College Essay
Sign Up to Beta-Read My Newest Novel, The Leverkühn Quartet
Want to Understand Literature? Start with Classical Music.
Ambitious Women Aren’t the Problem
Haunted by the Past: Tarkovsky, Dostoyevsky, and Demons
Columbia University Never Cared About Free Speech… Until It Became Convenient.
Daddy, I Have Had to Love You: Desire in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”
Rebel Poets: The Importance of Writing in a Free Society
Stefan Zweig, Judaism, and the Death of Europe
Think Twice Before Attacking the Department of Education
Why Conservatives Must Defend the Liberal Arts
The Feminist Mirage: How Contemporary Feminism Has Left Women Adrift
The Definitive List of 100 Classic Novels to Read Before You Die
Literature Has Become a Playground for Marxists
Plato, Baudrillard, and the Simulacra
Why Did English Departments Abandon Ideas for Ideology?
The Crisis of Artistic Creativity
The Eternal Now: How Present Tense Fiction Is Eroding Literary Depth
Neil Gaiman, #MeToo, and the Moral Crisis of BDSM
Students Are Unprepared to Read Books
Staying Productive While Waiting on Literary Agent Responses
Why We Should Free Literary Study from Marxist Proponents
What Middle School Taught Me About the Literary World