Robert Zaretsky teaches in the Honors College at the University of Houston. He is the author most recently of Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague.
Robert Zaretsky
Putting the Story Back in History
Hayden White on truth, facts, and the allure of a well-told tale
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, June 01, 2023
The Decreationist
Simone Weil’s thoughts on the unmaking of the self
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, August 24, 2023
Just Imagine
Adam Smith on the faculty that makes us human
by Robert Zaretsky | Monday, June 05, 2023
The Friend Zone
Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas on what makes a marriage tick were downright radical for their time
by Robert Zaretsky | Sunday, February 19, 2023
Words, Words, Words
What does the advent of ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, January 12, 2023
The Affair Rekindled
Remembering the plight of Dreyfus and the effect it had on a young Marcel Proust
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, August 11, 2022
The Bloom Has Faded
Reforming the Western canon may not go far enough
by Robert Zaretsky | Monday, June 22, 2020
Meditations on Marcus
The philosopher-emperor who reigned during an age of pandemic and war
by Robert Zaretsky | Saturday, August 08, 2020
Love in the Time of Camus
What the French writer can teach us about surviving a pandemic
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, May 14, 2020
The Long 20th Century of Terror
A history in ten books
by Robert Zaretsky | Thursday, August 18, 2016
My Life as a Door
Not exactly Yeats, but noteworthy nonetheless
by Robert Zaretsky | Friday, June 01, 2012
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
Giving Absurdity Its Due
In the Panthéon, Albert Camus joins a kindred soul
by Robert Zaretsky | Monday, March 01, 2010
