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The great majority of Justin Smith-Ruiu's non-academic writing now takes place at The Hinternet. He still writes for other media occasionally, when asked very nicely. 

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Yuval Noah Harari Takes on AI

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The Washington Post

September 11, 2024

America’s cult of Weird Surrealism rejected technocratic realism

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UnHerd

June 12, 2024

My Generation

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Harper’s Magazine

September 1, 2023

The Metaverse: Mark Zuckerberg in Retrograde

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New Statesman

October 1, 2022

Permanent Pandemic: Will COVID Controls Keep Controlling Us?

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Harper’s Magazine

June 1, 2022

The Work-Pleasure Surveillance Machine

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Tablet

August 20, 2021

How ‘Native Americanism’ Colonized American Literature

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Tablet

May 21, 2021

Meritocracy and the future of work

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New Statesman

April 9, 2021

The Joy of Appropriation

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Persuasion

March 16, 2021

What Weird Catholicism reveals about language and the internet

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New Statesman

February 25, 2021

The Art of the Bubble

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Tank Magazine

December 1, 2020

It’s All Just Beginning

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The Point

August 10, 2020

Kiosk

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Cabinet

February 25, 2020

Off the Wave

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The Point

January 29, 2020

The Art of Abstraction

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Cabinet

December 3, 2019

Off the Wave

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The Point

October 25, 2019

The Dichotomy

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Tank Magazine

September 20, 2019

Postmodernism: A Forum

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

June 14, 2019

How Social Media Imperils Scholarship

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

June 7, 2019

It's All Over

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

June 2, 2019

Culturally Determined: Conversation with Justin E. H. Smith

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Bloggingheads (Culturally Determined)

April 29, 2019

It’s All Over

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The Point

February 25, 2019

What Does Cave Art Mean?

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Art in America

September 27, 2018

I Write Because I Hate

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N+1

May 17, 2018

If reason exists without deliberation, it cannot be uniquely human

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Aeon

January 25, 2018

Why Cosmism? Why Now?

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Tank Magazine

December 3, 2017

The Plurality of Worlds

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N+1

October 6, 2017

Party Animal

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Party Animal

August 9, 2017

Punching Down

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The Point

July 20, 2017

Blood and Soil

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Harpers

February 1, 2017

Truth After Trump

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

October 30, 2016

No, He’s Not Hitler. And Yet.

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The New York Times

June 4, 2016

The Machine in the Ghost

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Cabinet

May 18, 2016

On Jenny Diski

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N+1

May 2, 2016

How philosophy came to disdain the wisdom of oral cultures

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Aeon

March 16, 2016

A Forgotten Field Could Save the Humanities

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

March 13, 2016

Invisible City

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

December 1, 2015

The New Totalitarians

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Slate

November 14, 2015

Capital Punishment in Crisis

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

August 3, 2015

The Joke

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Harpers

April 1, 2015

Paris, 2015

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The Utopian

January 17, 2015

Why Satire Matters

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

January 12, 2015

The Stone

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New York Times | Opinionator

November 2, 2014

The Great Extinction

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

May 4, 2014

Ragnarök on the Seine

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The American Reader

October 17, 2013

Auto-Icon: Tamara de Lempicka at the Pinacothèque de Paris

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Paper Monument

July 19, 2013

On the Human Scale

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Paper Monument

April 12, 2013

The Delights of Disgust

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

January 6, 2013

A Working Arrangement

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Lapham's Quarterly

October 19, 2011

Gödel in Hong Kong

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N+1

May 20, 2010

True to Life

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Cabinet

November 2, 2009

Maneaters

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N+1

December 18, 2008

Sea Slugs

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N+1

July 29, 2008

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