William Deresiewicz
Minor American writer. Not data-driven or trauma-informed.
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3 weeks 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.
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2 months 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.
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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?
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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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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.
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Mon 5/12, 1 PM Eastern, I'll be doing a live webcast w/ Erec Smith of the Cato Institute about the Matthew Strother Center for the Examined Life, the unique, remarkable intellectual retreat I'm involved with. Registration required. https://t.co/tekAAq9SJO
New piece, an attempt to understand the 2024 election. The new regime has buried those memories in a burning pile of garbage, but it's necessary to understand what went wrong. Only the blue team can defeat this monster, and it's not doing very well. https://t.co/54pgnl0uXV
New podcast appearance for Derate the Hate, a show about bettering the world by bridging divides. @DerateTheHate https://t.co/Lk3KxFGApm