Burning Bridges

New Column at The Dartmouth

I have a new column over at the nation’s oldest student newspaper, The Dartmouth.

I argue that:

The anonymous funder of the Literary Bridge should retract all their money, or at least the money they can still retract. Literature would be better served by a “society for the hatred of English departments” or by paying students to drop out. They should give “The New Critic” money, for our writers to travel to Greenland and report on Trump-induced chaos, or to throw an absinthe party for Zohran Mamdani staffers and write about what’s happening. Still better, light the money on fire and write about that.

Read the rest and do let me know your thoughts!