W. J. T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He was the editor of Critical Inquiry from 1978 to 2020, and is the author of Image Science: Iconology, Media Aesthetics, and Visual Culture, published by Chicago University Press in 2015.

W. J. T. Mitchell

From Robots to iBots: The Iconology of Artificial Intelligence

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Mental Traveler

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

Horowitz is founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly the Center for the Study of Popular Culture) and author of many books and pamphlets published over the last 20&nbsp;years. Among them: Hating Whitey;&nbsp;Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left; The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America; and The End of Time.

David Horowitz

Reply to W. J. T. Mitchell’s “The Trolls of Academe”

Education

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

The Trolls of Academe: Making Safe Spaces into Brave Spaces

American Psychosis: Trumpism and the Nightmare of History

The Evolution of the Last Dinosaur

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers

Film

W. J. T. Mitchell is Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He was the editor of Critical Inquiry from 1978 to 2020, and is the author of Image Science: Iconology, Media Aesthetics, and Visual Culture, published by Chicago University Press in 2015.