Every Day a Dreyfus Affair

Art, Polarization, and the New “Both-Sidesism”

Don’t forget to listen to the latest episode of my podcast, “What Is X?” featuring the critic and poet Ryan Ruby, talking about Criticism, and what it is. (The audio quality is horrible; the conversation is great.)

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In the spring of 1991, the Romanian comparative-religionist Ioan Petru Culianu was shot to death while seated in a toilet stall near his …