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Inside Higher Ed
Thoughts on Stanford's Academic Freedom Conference, November 28, 2022
What is Talent in Higher Ed? August 11, 2022
The Benefits of Department Chair Exchanges in an Institution, March 31, 2021
Academe's Facebook Problem, February 16, 2021
Black Panther: History and the Future, February 27, 2019
Familiar (Mis)Quotations, April 8, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education
From Legendary Activist to Adjunct Agitator; Mario Savio's Second Act, February 3, 2022
What I'm Reading: The Hard Thing About Hard Things, January 20, 2019
The Literature of Lynching, August 20, 2015
Home College: an Idea Whose Time Has Come (Again), February 28, 2014
College Love: John, Harvard, and Me, August 29, 2010
Los Angeles Review of Books
Examining Phillis Wheatley. December 19, 2022
Interconnected Lives. Review of Greg Sarris Watermelon Nights. August 22, 2021
Reflections on the Mirror Stage, April 27, 2021
Profits of Order, September 30, 2019
Why Not a Founder's Opera? April 29, 2019
"The Republican Club": A Teachable Moment, November 12, 2018
A Reactionary Renaming: Stanford and English Language Politics, October 17, 2019
Dancing With Chains, April 3, 2019
Best American Poetry
Frank Yerby, Protest, and the Picturesque, March 21, 2019
Sonnets and Seeds, January 17, 2019
For Maya Angelou: "The Caged Bird Sings," May 29, 2014
The American Interest
Susan Sontag: Race, Class, and the Limits of Style, November 29, 2019
Reading Gone With The Wind in China, May 4, 2018