No Flags, No Slogans
A transcript of the 2025 James Baldwin Memorial Lecture at UMass-Amherst, delivered on April 16.
I’ll begin with a comment that may or may not resonate: the United States is going to hell.
Is this comment an observable fact or is it merely a perception? If observable, then based on what metrics? If perception, then what are the conditions that might lend it credence?
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My first academic job was at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I was extremely lucky to have landed that job. I was fresh out of graduate school and had mailed off around 150 applications between September and December. It was 2003. These things were still done in hard copy back then.
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