Archive - That Blog You Like Is Going to Come Back in Style

On politicization and the decay of legitimacy

13 hrs ago • Adam Kotsko

Thought and its vicissitudes

Reflections on some deadlocks in contemporary culture

Jan 10 • Adam Kotsko

Missing the Pynchonian Element

A narrow reflection on "One Battle After Another"

Jan 2 • Adam Kotsko

December 2025

In Case You Missed It

Excerpts from writings I posted or published elsewhere

Dec 28, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

The Maniacally Altruistic Gene

Or, Why everyone should make the time to really savor Pluribus

Dec 26, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

What Have I Been Doing All My Life?

Reflections on my work from the Association of Philosophy and Literature annual conference

Dec 17, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

Billionaires for a Day

Or, On the value of "data" and the endgame of advertising

Dec 14, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

A Winner in the Losers’ Bracket

Tales of an Improbable Academic Career

Dec 7, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

November 2025

Kettle Logic in Higher Education

Or, No one is using kettle logic, they are right to use kettle logic, and there is simply no such thing as kettle logic

Nov 26, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

Is Theology Dying?

A conference reflection

Nov 25, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

On a certain tendency in Pauline studies

Academic inside baseball that I promise will eventually turn out to be relateable

Nov 16, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

That time I unexpectedly stopped ruining my own life

A preliminary report on my semi-involuntary social media detox

Nov 8, 2025 • Adam Kotsko

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