William Deresiewicz

William Deresiewicz is an essayist and critic. His book Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life is based in part on his essays “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education” and “Solitude and Leadership.” To read all the posts from his weekly blog, “All Points,” click here. He is a contributing editor of the magazine.

Solitude and Leadership

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts

By William Deresiewicz | Monday March 1, 2010

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday June 1, 2008

Love on Campus

Why we should understand, and even encourage, a certain sort of erotic intensity between student and professor

By William Deresiewicz | Friday June 1, 2007

The Dispossessed

First we stopped noticing members of the working class, and now we’re convinced they don’t exist

By William Deresiewicz | Friday December 1, 2006

The Salome Factor

How the sexualization of concert dance helped end a golden age.

By William Deresiewicz | Tuesday March 1, 2005

A Jane Austen Kind of Guy

By William Deresiewicz | Tuesday September 5, 2017

On Political Correctness

By William Deresiewicz | Monday March 6, 2017

The Last Post

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday September 15, 2013

Oslo Remembered

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday September 8, 2013

Though He Doth Tarry

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday August 25, 2013

Adieu

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday August 18, 2013

The One Thing Needful

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday August 11, 2013

Take it Easy

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday August 4, 2013

Stretchers

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday July 28, 2013

Heal for America

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday July 21, 2013

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