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  • 1 month ago | danieloppenheimer.substack.com | Meghan Daum |Mark Oppenheimer |Mana Afsari |William Deresiewicz

    My guest on this episode of the podcast is William Deresiewicz, author of a number of books, most notably Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life, and the Substack newsletter Derisivist. Bill and I end up spending a fair amount of time discussing an as-yet-untitled essay of his that’s forthcoming in Salmagundi, and at what I'd say are the two poles of it.

  • 2 months ago | utaustinliberalarts.substack.com | William Deresiewicz

    In a few weeks, UT Austin’s College of Liberal Arts will host our annual spring symposium, where we gather authors, scholars, and scientists from around the country for a day of discussion and debate. This year the theme is Discourse: In Action, Theory, and Democracy, and the goal is to model how to have conversations that matter. One of our guests will be writer and critic William Deresiewicz in conversation with Kristen Soltis Anderson and Michael Lind about the “real elite.” Who are they?

  • 2 months ago | the-hinternet.com | William Deresiewicz

    A core component of our activity here at The Hinternet is the exploration of ideas for the preservation and stewardship of the irreducibly human powers of creativity, imagination, and intellectual discovery, in the face of a rising machine-dominated social order.

  • Jan 6, 2025 | persuasion.community | William Deresiewicz

    Now I’ll never have a chance to impress Arlene Croce. Croce, who died last month at 90, was the dean of American dance critics during the heyday of American dance. I started my writing career as a dance critic, too, and for many years that’s all I ever dreamed of being as a writer. My first sixty-plus published articles were dance reviews, and their intended audience consisted, in its entirety, of Arlene Croce. She was the lodestar, the queen, the presence around which the field arranged itself.

  • Dec 2, 2024 | chronicle.com | William Deresiewicz |Adam Briggle |Lee Papa |Len Gutkin

    If you’ve taught at a college or university in the last decade, you’ve almost certainly sat through some required diversity, equity, and inclusion programming. Perhaps you were on a search committee and had to meet regularly with a diversity consultant who promised to help root out your implicit biases.

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William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz @WDeresiewicz
2 Apr 25

New podcast appearance for Derate the Hate, a show about bettering the world by bridging divides. @DerateTheHate https://t.co/Lk3KxFGApm

William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz @WDeresiewicz
24 Mar 25

New appearance on one of my regular talking-places, the redoubtable Andrew Keen's daily podcast. We discuss the state of men, the universities, the left, etc. @ajkeen https://t.co/QgROdrZKfs

William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz @WDeresiewicz
13 Mar 25

New podcast appearance. Great conversation with the great Daniel Oppenheimer. My origin story as a writer; the "not-left" and the energy on the right; elite education; are rich people happy?; Jewish intellectualism; intellectual scenes; Jewish identity. https://t.co/SZuxDv8xoU