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  • 1 month ago | kenilgunas.substack.com | William Deresiewicz

    Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -58:44Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Bill Deresiewicz is a writer and cultural critic. He’s written popular essays such as “Solitude and Leadership,” and books including Excellent Sheep, a critique of elite education; the The Death of the Artist, which explores the precarious lives of creative workers; and The End of Solitude—a collection of Bill’s greatest essays.

  • 2 months ago | salmagundi.skidmore.edu | William Deresiewicz

    Another debacle. Another round of rationalizations, minimizations, self-exculpations. Harris lost because she got a late start. Because of anti-incumbency sentiment. Because voters were misinformed about the border, the economy, the crime rate. Because “this is who we are” (i.e. sexist and racist). Because she represented change, and some people can’t handle the fact that the country is changing.

  • Mar 12, 2025 | 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.

  • Feb 12, 2025 | 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?

  • Feb 9, 2025 | 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.

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William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz @WDeresiewicz
26 May 25

New podcast episode. A chill, unpredictable conversation about eros and the left, incels, the life and death of the artist, all prefaced by a bit about Portland vs. the Northeast vs. the Midwest. https://t.co/SWw0qZcvIS

William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz @WDeresiewicz
18 May 25

New podcast appearance on Andrew Keen's Keen On America. We discuss the themes of my recent post-election piece in Salmagundi: the exhaustion of the liberal establishment and what can be done about it. https://t.co/ZgBWJKlp71

William Deresiewicz
William Deresiewicz @WDeresiewicz
14 May 25

I've been asked to announce that I'm going to be included in Best American Essays 2025, coming out in October and available for preorder now. The editor is Jia Tolentino, and other authors include John Jeremiah Sullivan, Christian Lorentzen, and Eula Biss. https://t.co/8g1OWPFiPl