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Cold Vulgarity

Josh Mayo

The promise of critical thinking often fails to deliver, as many commentators have shown. But as world leaders continue to sound the clarion for more critical inquiry, itโ€™s worth...

Get Ready for a โ€œQuantitative Approachโ€ to Reading

Josh Mayo

At Stanford, literary scholar and marxist critic Franco Moretti proposes a radical plan for English departments: less reading, more computing. With an ocean of texts yet to be studied,...