Eminent Americans
Daniel Oppenheimer, Emmett Rensin, Ken, Blake Smith, David Sessions, Tuhin Chakrabarty, Rogers Brubaker, Ann Manov, Arc Magazine, Jeffrey Lawrence, Len Gutkin, Shreeharsh KelkarA newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 158 | Founded | 6 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
Daniel Oppenheimer's Substack is Eminent Americans, a newsletter and podcast about the contemporary American intellectual scene. He is the author of Exit Right (Simon & Schuster, 2016) and Far From Respectable (University of Texas Press, 2021).
intrasubjective hallucination in the latent west; "The Complications" (2024), essays elsewhere
Ken Ilgunas is the author of the travel memoirs Walden on Wheels and Trespassing Across America, as well as This Land Is Our Land, which advocates for the “right to roam.” Lives in Scotland and writes about gardening, bushcraft, movies, & politics.
Historian and journalist, cohost of Off Christopher Street. Writing in The New Republic, The Point, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, Commonweal, and others.
Computer Science Professor interested in AI , Literature and Law Opinions mine and do not reflect my employer
Sociologist working on fundamental social categories (new book Gender Identity: The Career of a Category) and digital technology (2022 book Hyperconnectivity and Its Discontents). New project on digital infrastructures of populism and technocracy.
Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
Associate Professor of English at Rutgers, novelist, translator. Author of Anxieties of Experience: The Literatures of the Americas from Whitman to Bolaño (Oxford) and the Spanish-language novel El americano. Represented by Agencia Silvia Bastos.
Len Gutkin is editor of the Chronicle Review.
I am a continuing lecturer at UC-Berkeley affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Studies Field (ISF). I write about the history and future of AI, its implications for work and labor, and on the relationship between politics, expertise, and democracy.
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