Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University, editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books, a staff writer for Lit Hub, and an emeritus staff writer at The Millions. He is a frequent contributor at several different sites including The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, Aeon, Jacobin, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Killing the Buddha, Salon, The Public Domain Review, Atlas Obscura, JSTOR Daily, and Newsweek. He is also the author of several books, including Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain (2024). He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University and an MA in literary and cultural studies from Carnegie Mellon University.
Ed Simon
Articles
Ross Douthat’s Tame God
Ed Simon considers the invitation from Ross Douthat to believe in a deity.
Toward a Genealogy of Fossil Capitalism: On Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth”
Ed Simon reviews Mohamed Amer Meziane’s “The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization.”
Nightmares of Reason: On Benjamín Labatut’s “The MANIAC”
Ed Simon reviews Benjamín Labatut’s newest book “The MANIAC.”
Why the 17th Century (Still) Matters: On Jonathan Healey’s “The Blazing World”
Ed Simon reviews Jonathan Healey’s “The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603–1689.”
Monica’s Garden: Notes Towards “A People’s History of Theology”
Ed Simon argues for the necessity of a theoretical “People’s History of Theology.”
Are We Still Postmodern?: On Stuart Jeffries’s “Everything, All the Time, Everywhere”
Ed Simon reviews Stuart Jeffries’s “Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern.”
When Perry Miller Invented America: On Abram C. Van Engen’s “City on a Hill”
Ed Simon reviews Abram C. Van Engen’s “City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism.”
Doubting Thomas: On Peter Manseau’s “The Jefferson Bible”
Ed Simon reviews Peter Manseau’s “The Jefferson Bible.”
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