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Mark Edmundson

Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia. His newest book is The Heart of the Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching.

Democracy’s Concrete Court

The ritual of pickup basketball is a pocket of democracy as close as the local park....

MARK EDMUNDSON

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PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?

This piece appears in the LARB Print Quarterly Journal: No. 19,  Romance To receive the LARB Quarterly Journal, become a member  or purchase a copy at your local bookstore.     ¤ Why does love got to be so ...

MARK EDMUNDSON

LITERARY CRITICISM

Stone Walls and No Discussions

Ideas wither when they aren’t challenged, and the greatest free speech problem in the United States may be on the left....

MARK EDMUNDSON

POLITICS

Los Angeles Review of Books

On Shit: Profanity as Weltanschauung

MARK EDMUNDSON

MEMOIR & ESSAY

CULTURAL STUDIES

Los Angeles Review of Books

Football: The Lure of the Game

MARK EDMUNDSON

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Los Angeles Review of Books

Hate the Beatles!

MARK EDMUNDSON

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