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Mark Edmundson

Mark Edmundson is University Professor at the University of Virginia. His most recent books are Why Write? and Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals.

Intimations of Fascism

The problem with hating the haters

by Mark Edmundson | Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Violence in Charlottesville

What I saw firsthand, and what it meant

by Mark Edmundson | Monday, August 28, 2017

Test of Faith

The Roman Catholic Church may forgive us our sins—but can it be forgiven for its own?

by Mark Edmundson | Monday, September 07, 2015

The Doctor’s Discontents

A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy

by Mark Edmundson | Tuesday, September 05, 2017

Off to See the Wizard

Finding the virtues of Homer, Plato, and Jesus in Technicolor Oz

by Mark Edmundson | Monday, February 29, 2016

Alone at the Movies

My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen

by Mark Edmundson | Saturday, December 01, 2007

Fadeaway Jumper

A Sunday-afternoon player of a certain age says his farewell to basketball

by Mark Edmundson | Thursday, December 01, 2005

Enough Already

What I'd really like to tell the bores in my life

by Mark Edmundson | Monday, June 01, 2009

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

School Survival

by Anne P. Beatty

As L.A. teachers prepare to go on strike, we’re revisiting an essay by Anne P. Beatty about her time teaching high school in South Central Los Angeles, where her homeroom class often paused for a moment of silence to mourn students who had died in drive-by shootings. Her students knew that this was not the case in wealthier school districts. “They knew that somewhere there were schools with computers that worked, just as they knew that somewhere it was safe to walk through the streets at night,” Beatty writes. “They knew it wasn’t normal for 16-year-olds to die.” But what she found shocking, her students had to learn to endure. “Apathy was involved in giving in to the violence, and there was despair over the prospect of a better future.”