News, Notes, & Podcasts

The details of the dissolution of the Honors College at Tulsa continue to be quite discouraging.

Inspired by some recent criminal activity in the Christian rock world, this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’re listening to songs about fame—mostly its negative aspects.

Charles Eisenstein lays out some initial policy proposals that could help farmers stay solvent while transitioning to more regenerative agricultural practices.

This week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’re listening to songs about restlessness—or, as the scholar Frederick R. Karl calls it, spatiality. I managed to do this whole episode…

Christine Rosen pens a biting response to Katherine Boyle’s rosy picture of techno-families.

In conjunction with my recent FPR article “Terrestrial Otherness,” this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’ll be listening to music honoring the noble six-legged creatures whose world we…

Piers Gelly describes how students responded when he invited AI into their classroom.

In this first episode of A Symposium of Popular Songs, we’ll be listening to music about middle age and talking about its various indignities.

Sally Thomas remembers the wry and wonderful formalist poet Jane Greer.

Grace Russo isn’t impressed with her alma mater’s AI assistant.

Jen Pollock Michel describes what she’s learned while caring for her aging mother.

“Food Is Not Magic.” Garth Brown probes the oddities that ensue when people conscript food into an ideological project: “Contradictions and superficiality do not discredit the claim that the modern…