Writing

Here are some sad/funny things that writers, intellectuals, scholars, and artists say in response to other people’s creations in written comments or workshop settings that, for some reason, sound to them like valuable, incisive engagements, but really, really aren’t. If commentators restrained themselves and spared others these insights, it would …

This essay explores the invention of the “global” and its role in the formation of transnational history, through a review of Isaac Kamola’s Making the World Global. As Kamola argues, global thinking reflected a particular, late-20th century moment in the history of U. S. universities and foundations, one characterized by …