Beyond Neutrality
Protest exposes a tension between the university’s intellectual mission and…
Schooling Myself
I was four and a half, and had recently informed my mother that I needed to learn to read by my fifth birthday.
Schooling MyselfSelf-education is an act of love. The love that spurs it is not for the self’s improvement or advancement, though ambition often contributes to dedicated study. Nor is it only a love of knowledge. The love is for the act itself, a recursion rather than a tautology: you must love coming to know.
Commit LitWhereas the quit-lit canon depicted the academic humanities as a charnel house of competition and hopelessness, it was to become for me an oasis: a place where I could observe and contemplate, from however small a remove, the riddles of existence revealed in everyday life.
Anorexia and Autonomy“My body is for me. Your body is for you,” says Manne. But is my body just for me? Can I separate out my own wants from others’ preferences? I want to be desired. I want to be needed. What those others need and desire, then, will always be threaded into what I need and desire.
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