#Essays

JD

desaijay99

Thread Incoming:A lot of times, ppl are shocked by others writing essays on characters, feeling that there can't be that much to say about them and that the authors did

Robbie Maakestad

RobbieMaakestad

The Rumpus is open for essay submissions until July 31 (https://therumpus.submittable.com/submit ), so as an editorial staff we put together this thread of what we would like to see in @The_Rumpus

Barbara | end white supremacy forever

bfister

I first drafted this essay months ago and the first readers thought I’d better do more to define this weird movement I was using as an example. Most people hadn’t

Matthew Lee Anderson

mattleeanderson

Evangelicalism's "social vision is fragmentary, often lacks substance and strategy, and focuses mainly on a one-issue or single-candidate approach." -- Carl Henry, 1980 In 1980, evangelicals were surging into politics.

Alan Levinovitz

AlanLevinovitz

I am...um...slowly coming around to critiques of (much) scholarly writing in the humanities. The problem isn't that people can't understand it—as I've pointed out, physics is hard for laypeople—it's that

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

thellpsx

Not all of us made it. But, as June Jordan wrote in 2001, "Some of us did not die... Some of you, of us, remain, despite that hatred that violence

Robbie Maakestad

RobbieMaakestad

@The_Rumpus is open for essay submissions until February 28, so here’s a #RumpusEssays thread in which our amazing editors share what they would like to see in submissions. Give them

Siobhan O'Leary

SiobhanFTB

I'll elaborate more later but I did want to quickly mention that anarchism is a political philosophy with deep questions about power and consent and it's for those reasons that

Matthew Curtis

totalcurtis

Somehow I missed this memo last week, but I am pretty bummed out to read that @ReadOctober is shutting down at the end of the year. Sending my best to

Adam J. Ceresko 🦈

adamceresko

Growth is managing the whole funnel and constantly optimizing it to increase your overall growth goal. I love this image (h/t @bbalfour) This plays ALONGSIDE building product (the core value

kang🥇

jaycaspiankang

Genuine question: everyone cheering on the end of the SAT is fine with giving even more discretion to the same college admissions staffs that bend over backwards to let in

Anne M. Carpenter

catholickungfu

It occurs to me that John Henry Newman says much better than I could—partly because I get insolent, but also because he is smarter than I am—why essays about “why”

Dr. Audrey Truschke

AudreyTruschke

Now that we have a real President again in the US (President Elect Biden), let me turn to something bothering some folks --How I usually talk about the Mughals vs.

Caspar Henderson

casparhenderson

"...all clear cases of awe have the following two components: an experience of vastness, and a need for cognitive accommodation of this vastness... "...The need for cognitive accommodation makes you

Yogi Jaeger

yoginho

Darwinian Gaia: the persister perspective on evolution. https://aeon.co/essays/the-gaia-hypothesis-reimagined-by-one-of-its-key-sceptics via @aeonmag I think this an amazingly refreshing and interesting new view on evolution. For several re

Mariam Momodu

mariammomodu_

No Twitter thread of scholarships will open the door to funded graduate studies, unless you take the next steps.I’ve advised many people on grad school scholarships and within 15 minutes,

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