“I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which co”

“The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.”