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Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky teaches history at the Honors College at the University of Houston, and is the author, most recently, of Boswell's Enlightenment.

The Long 20th Century of Terror

The Long 20th Century of Terror

A history in ten books

by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, August 18, 2016
The Fabulist

The Fabulist

A literary critic’s ugly deception

by Robert Zaretsky | Tuesday, March 11, 2014
My Life as a Door

My Life as a Door

Not exactly Yeats, but noteworthy nonetheless

by Robert Zaretsky | Friday, June 01, 2012
Plunging to Earth

Plunging to Earth

Once the sport of daredevils, skydiving now offers it existential thrills to grandmothers, pudgy geeks, and even the occasional college professor

by Robert Zaretsky | Friday, June 03, 2011
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Giving Absurdity Its Due

In the Panthéon, Albert Camus joins a kindred soul

by Robert Zaretsky | Monday, March 01, 2010
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After the Storm

by Stephanie Bastek

In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, we’re revisiting our interview with environmental reporter Elizabeth Rush. Smarty Pants host Stephanie Bastek asks what the future looks like for America’s coastal residents, especially as climate change contributes to rising sea levels and worsening storm seasons. “The options for the people and animals in these places is stark: retreat or die,” Bastek says. “Those are the options we generally associate with far-off islands, like Fuji or Kiribati. But dramatic, life-changing climate change is happening right now in our own backyard.”