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Essay
Aug 20, 2026
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7 min read
Scholars are tasked not only with bringing about changes in what we think and do, but also in how we think and do.
Aug 13, 2026
6 min read
A more interesting question is not whether we should, or should not, use AI in academic research, but what our position on academic research signals about what we believe makes a "good scholar" and where that belief comes from.
Aug 6, 2026
In much the same way, I feel the differences in my writing when using the notes app on my iPhone, compared to when I’m writing on my computer, and the altogether different writing produced using pen and paper alone.
Jul 30, 2026
The implication is that we may pull the academy apart and put it back together any which way we like, without any certainty of making meaningful progress on the problems that have come to define its apparent brokenness.
Jul 23, 2026
4 min read
While Zhang may be one of the most common surnames in the world, with more than 100 million people sharing the name, I don’t think that fact alone explains why people have started noticing Zhang appearing so frequently in their bibliographies
Jul 17, 2026
I would start on the Wikipedia page for anime, and hours later, when my mum came into my room to turn on the lights because dusk had fallen, I would be on the page about the militarisation of outer space.
Jul 9, 2026
8 min read
We don’t need to place ourselves into a state of eternal yearning – a tragic condition of never being fucking enough – before we can finally call ourselves scholars and academics.
Jul 2, 2026
There’s definitely an element of that; I’ve heard people say things like, ‘I’m shamed into working’, or ‘There’s something about seeing other people work that makes me want to work’.
+1
Jun 25, 2026
In many ways, this arrangement is not entirely new: it resembles, in important respects, how intellectual work was supported before the rise of the modern university.
Jun 18, 2026
9 min read
Why does a feed full of intelligent people and intelligent ideas make me want to open Instagram less and less?
Submission Calls
Jun 14, 2026
3 min read
We are inviting personal non-fiction essays that examine scholarship under the conditions of the On-lightenment.
Commentary
Jun 11, 2026
It’s no longer sexy to simply have your nails done or your hair styled. What’s sexy now is the performance of how much you know.
