Essay | Winter 2021
Contributing Editor
Alan Jacobs, a contributing editor of The New Atlantis and the author of the Text Patterns blog on TheNewAtlantis.com, is a distinguished professor of the humanities in the honors program of Baylor University. His recent books include Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind (Penguin, 2020), The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2018) and How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds (Currency, 2017). His homepage is here: http://www.ayjay.org.
In The New Atlantis
Essay | Winter 2021
Essay | Spring 2019
Technocratic solutionism is dying. To replace it, we must learn again the creation and reception of myth.
Essay | Summer/Fall 2017
Crying “free exchange of ideas!” misses the cultural meaning of protest in a society coming apart.
Essay | Winter 2016
On being known by one's neighbors versus being known by the state
Online Exclusive | October 19, 2014
October 19, 2014
Why has Internet discourse devolved into a "war of every man against every man"?
Online Exclusive | October 19, 2014
October 19, 2014
Online Exclusive | October 19, 2014
October 19, 2014
Can the innovative ‘do-it-yourself’ education movement really replace the dying university model?
Essay | Winter 2014
Online Exclusive | September 25, 2013
September 25, 2013
What’s the difference between new ideas that are good, and those that are merely novel?
Review | Spring 2011
Review | Spring 2010
Essay | Summer 2009
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Neal Stephenson’s massive new novel is obsessive, adolescent, and thoroughly delightful
Review | Spring 2009
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