Mark Edmundson

Mark Edmundson is University Professor at the University of Virginia. His books include Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals and The Heart of the Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching. His new book, Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for Democracy, will be published in the spring.

Teach What You Love

A modest proposal for professors of literature

By Mark Edmundson | Friday September 11, 2020

Intimations of Fascism

The problem with hating the haters

By Mark Edmundson | Wednesday January 3, 2018

The Doctor’s Discontents

A harshly critical new biography of the father of psychotherapy

By Mark Edmundson | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Violence in Charlottesville

What I saw firsthand, and what it meant

By Mark Edmundson | Monday August 28, 2017

Off to See the Wizard

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

By Mark Edmundson | Monday February 29, 2016

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 7, 2015

Enough Already

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

By Mark Edmundson | Monday June 1, 2009

Alone at the Movies

My days in the dark with Robert Altman and Woody Allen

By Mark Edmundson | Saturday December 1, 2007

Fadeaway Jumper

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

By Mark Edmundson | Thursday December 1, 2005

Teach What You Love

By Mark Edmundson | Friday September 11, 2020

Intimations of Fascism

By Mark Edmundson | Wednesday January 3, 2018

The Doctor’s Discontents

By Mark Edmundson | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Violence in Charlottesville

By Mark Edmundson | Monday August 28, 2017

Off to See the Wizard

By Mark Edmundson | Monday February 29, 2016

Test of Faith

By Mark Edmundson | Monday September 7, 2015

Enough Already

By Mark Edmundson | Monday June 1, 2009

Alone at the Movies

By Mark Edmundson | Saturday December 1, 2007

Fadeaway Jumper

By Mark Edmundson | Thursday December 1, 2005

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