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The University in Crisis
And ways they might be able to weather the storm
I write fairly often about specific classes I’m teaching at the University of Pennsylvania but far less frequently about what’s going on in universities more broadly, including the crisis th...
Understanding Consciousness
We have good reason to suspect LLMs fall short of it (and will continue to do so)
Thanks to evolutionary biologist and outspoken New Atheist Richard Dawkins, a lot of people have been talking about consciousness over the past week, includi...
Trump's Sinking Ship
Adjusting our expectations as the administration tries to figure out how to avoid capsizing
As you may have noticed, I’m writing less in response to headlines.
The Fifty Greatest Songwriters of the Rock Era
Taylor Swift accepts the Pop Album of the Year award onstage during the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 26, 2026 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
The New York Times generated a lot o...
Making Sense of the Reactionary Right
A recent essay from David Brooks proposes one way to do it. Leo Strauss pointed to another
An old grad-school friend of mine wrote me this past Saturday to say that he’d heard David Brooks plug me and my Substack on a podcast. That was ver...
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