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Le Sentier des Idées 29- 03- 23

John Guillory’s Nonalignment Pact
Is the prominent critic stuck in the ’90s — or the ’60s?

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 17-03-2023

It’s Not Just Our Students — ChatGPT Is Coming for Faculty Writing And there’s little agreement on the rules that should govern it.

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 17-03-2023

Orwell, Camus and truth
On honesty as an attitude

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 17-03-2023

Bemoaning breast enlargement, a philosopher makes the case for the “unmodified” body. But what of tattoos, cochlear implants, or even cutting one’s hair?... more »

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 17-03-2023

On the Need to Touch Grass
What happens when an entire generation loses itself in a world of abstractions?

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 17-03-2023

The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 17-03-2023

Why I'm not scared of ChatGPT

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 03-03-2023

The Mystery of Edgar Allan Poe
Nearly 175 years on, the writer’s death remains as mysterious as his literature. A new book reveals the roles of a jealous poet and a conniving doctor in keeping it so

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 03-03-2023

The Mistress of Slangbr
Madeline Kripke assembled what may be the largest personal dictionary collection in the world. It is certainly the bawdiest.

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 21-02-2023

anatomy of a book cancellation
"Why are adult in universities so willing to indulge the illiberal clamoring of their junior colleagues

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 21-02-2023

Words, Words, Words
What does the advent of #ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?

SOURCE:The American Scolar
DATE: 21-02-2023

Conspiracies are the price of freedom
The liberal dream will always have losers

SOURCE:UnHerd
DATE: 21-02-2023

The Erosion of Democracy Is Contagious

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

Iran’s Game in South America: A Nuclear Card or Another Bluff?

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

America Can’t Sit Out of the New Space Race

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

There’s No Such Thing as ‘Smart Sanctions’

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

Biden’s Kyiv Visit Shows He’s a War President

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

The Death of U.S. Diplomacy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

What a Quran Burning Reveals About Turkey’s Alliance With the West

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

Will China Become the World’s Technology Superpower?

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

Techno-Nationalism: An Industrial Policy for the Twenty-First Century

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-02-2023

How Erdoğan Set the Stage for Turkey’s Disastrous Earthquake Response

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 15-02-2023

Turkey’s Earthquake Response Is as Political as the Conditions That Increased The Devastation

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 10-02-2023

Graduates from Ph.D. programs in the humanities have virtually no chance of a tenure-track job.

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 29-01-2023

Welcome to Neom, Saudi Arabia’s desert dystopia in the making
Western architects are scrambling to work on a Saudi Arabian dream: a city founded on a 170km-long line of mirrored towers. But will it end up as a series of broken pieces?

SOURCE:Prospect
DATE: 29-01-2023

Israel’s Anti-Democratic Practices Against Palestinians Are Infecting Its Political System

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 29-01-2023

Two Supreme Court Cases That Could Break the Internet

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 26-01-2023

The End Is Only the Beginning
Our species may soon evolve, with the help of technology, into something more than human

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 25-01-2023

In Defense of the Art-Targeting Climate Activists

SOURCE:project-syndicate
DATE: 25-01-2023

The joy of sets
Why won’t our artistic-literary establishment recognise that there’s mystery, beauty and humanity in maths?

SOURCE:Prospect
DATE: 25-01-2023

Friedrich Hayek: a great political thinker rather than a great economist
Volume I of the definitive biography covers the first 50 years, from his birth in Vienna to the publication of his classic, The Road to Serfdom

SOURCE:The Spectator
DATE: 25-01-2023

A Message for the Federal Reserve in the New Inflation Data

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 13-01-2023

Mankind Is a Piece of Shit
On Keiron Pim’s “Endless Flight”

SOURCE:Los Angeles Review of Books
DATE: 10-01-2023

Lisa in Emily in Little Paris
A piece of experiential marketing for a television show about experiential marketing

SOURCE:N+1
DATE: 10-01-2023

Have yourself a countercultural Christmas
Let's recover the Nativity's true egalitarianism

SOURCE:UnHerd
DATE: 10-01-2023

Ode to booze: Singing
Paeans to the potables

SOURCE:The New Criterion
DATE: 10-01-2023

The Case for Wearing Masks Forever

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 29-12-2022

Should all genetics research on intelligence be off limits
there a genetic component to intelligence?

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 21-12-2022

Citadels of Neoliberalism or Bastions of Wokism?
What elite higher ed’s critics on both the left and the right get wro

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 21-12-2022

The Art of Betrayal: Translation in an Age of Suspicion

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 21-12-2022

The Fever Dream of Jewish Cultural Power
Josh Lambert’s ‘The Literary Mafia’ retells the story of Jewish literary achievement in postwar America as the sordid maneuverings of a gang of racist, misogynist white men who, above all, looked out for each other

SOURCE:TABLET MAG
DATE: 21-12-2022

The Impotence of Being Clever
When did cleverness become such a nuisance?

SOURCE:The Hedgehog Review
DATE: 21-12-2022

On Hope and Holy Fools
There is nothing very sexy about hope

SOURCE:The Hedgehog Review
DATE: 21-12-2022

Manifesto for the weary: can rest be radical?
Workplace culture in a capitalist society constantly demands more of us. A new book suggests that most revolutionary response could be to just stop

SOURCE:Prospect
DATE: 21-12-2022

Life Is Hard. And That’s Good
When the going gets tough, the tough get philosophical.

SOURCE:Nautilus
DATE: 21-12-2022

The remarkable influence of Friedrich Hayek
Modern free-market ideology owes much to the thought of an Austrian economist neglected for the first half of his life

SOURCE:Prospect
DATE: 21-12-2022

Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, an Unofficial Biography

SOURCE:London Review of Books
DATE: 21-12-2022

The Brilliance of Colette, a Novelist Who Prized the Body Over the Mind

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 21-12-2022

The Making of Norman Mailer
The young man went to war and became a novelist. But did he ever really come back?

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 21-12-2022

LEO STRAUSS AND THE CLOSED SOCIETY

SOURCE:First Things
DATE: 21-12-2022

The Delight of Edward Hopper’s Solitude
A new show at the Whitney reveals what we’ve been missing during the pandemic.

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 21-12-2022

The Case Against the Twitter Apology
Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 21-12-2022

Choice Reading
Nineteenth-century New York City was filled with books, bibliophilia, and marginalia.

SOURCE:Lapham’s Quarterly
DATE: 21-12-2022

Hearts and Minds
What we fight about when we fight about schools.

SOURCE:Lapham’s Quarterly
DATE: 21-12-2022

The House of His Desires
The life and legacy of al-Hallaj.

SOURCE:Lapham’s Quarterly
DATE: 21-12-2022

Napoleonic Conspiracy Theories, Unsociable Shabbiness, and More Occupational Hazards of the Second-Hand Book Trade

SOURCE:Literary Hub
DATE: 21-12-2022

How Wall Street Is Making Jerome Powell’s Job Harder

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 03-12-2022

The US Academy and the Provincialization of Fanon

SOURCE:Los Angeles Review of Books
DATE: 25-11-2022

How Stoicism influenced music from the French Renaissance to Pink Floyd

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 25-11-2022

How Americans edit sex out of my writing

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 25-11-2022

The Toxic History of Color

SOURCE:ATMOS
DATE: 25-11-2022

Apocalypse Nowish
The sense of an ending

SOURCE:Harper's Magazine
DATE: 25-11-2022

The Case Against the Twitter Apology
Our twenty-first-century culture of performed remorse has become a sorry spectacle.

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 25-11-2022

What Do We Really Know About Teaching Kids Math?

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 19-11-2022

The End of Trump?

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 18-11-2022

The Enduring Power of Trumpism

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 16-11-2022

The Philosophy of Shittiness: On Kieran Setiya’s “Life Is Hard”

SOURCE:Los Angeles Review of Books
DATE: 14-11-2022

The Midterm Results Bring an Air of Relief to the COP27 Climate Summit

SOURCE:The New Yorker
DATE: 11-11-2022

You’ve Burned Out. Now What?
Academe’s competitive productivity is a dead end.

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 10-11-2022

An Epidemic of Delusions
‘When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People’

SOURCE:Commonweal magazine
DATE: 10-11-2022

Energy Department Allocates $2.8 Billion to EV Battery Manufacturing

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-10-2022

Will Brazil Succumb to Authoritarianism?

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-10-2022

Musk: Twitter Purchase Was Too Expensive

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-10-2022

The U.S. Needs a New Policy Toward Syria

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-10-2022

Will High Gas Prices Doom the Democrats?

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-10-2022

Russia to Leave Borders Open Amid Draft Exodus

SOURCE:The National Interest
DATE: 21-10-2022

Joan W. Scott: “The line between a politically engaged critical history and a dogmatic reading of the past is not easy to distinguish”   ... more »

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 17-10-2022

What Is It Like to Have a Brain?: On Patrick House’s “Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness”

SOURCE:Los Angeles Review of Books
DATE: 17-10-2022

Historians on both left and right are weaponizing history for political gain. It’s a vulgar form of historicism ... more »

SOURCE:Autres
DATE: 17-10-2022

Do too many historians work “through the prism of contemporary social-justice issues,” as the president of the American Historical Association contends?... more »

SOURCE:The Chronicle of Higher Education
DATE: 17-10-2022