Modern Jacobins: What Elite? What People?
“The movement conservatives of our time seem the heirs of the French rather than the American Revolution.”       —Sam Tanenhaus, The Death of ConservatismWe’ve become used to it, over the past year, this spectacle

Being, Becoming, and Fatherhood
[Warning: this post is much more about me and my life than my usual posts are. I don't blame you if you want to go read something else.]Back when I was in grad school, I used to carpool from Chicago to my teaching gig at Notre Dame with a

Letter to Andrea Brady
Andrea Brady has left a string of comments by way of response to my article “Public Faces in Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry.”

The Blogger on Blogging
Oh, sure. I understand: you've had it with my blogging. Who hasn't! And you'd like something new. Well, how about

"Its Chief Weapon is Excess": Chris Hamilton-Emery on Cambridge Poetry
Many a keyboard has been tapped, and many an email sent zipping across the Atlantic, inspired by the recent one-two punch combo of the Cambridge Literary Review's special feature on Cambridge Poetry and Kent Johnson's