Scott McLemee

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Biography

Scott McLemee is an essayist, critic, and digital feuilletonist (rather like being a blogger, only it sounds more distinguished somehow).

In 2008, he began a three-year term on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. From 1995 until 2001, he was contributing editor for Lingua Franca. Between 2001 and 2005, he covered scholarship in the humanities as senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2005, he helped start the online news journal Inside Higher Ed, where he serves as Essayist at Large, writing a weekly column called Intellectual Affairs. His reviews, essays, and interviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Nation, Newsday, Bookforum, The Common Review, and numerous other publications. In 2004, he received the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. He has given papers or been an invited speaker at meetings of the American Political Science Association, the Cultural Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, and the Organization of American Historians. A selection of his work is available at his website. He is also a member of two group blogs, Crooked Timber and Cliopatria.

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Matters of Ultimate Concern

May 25, 2011

A new book considers the power of religion in the public sphere. Scott McLemee reads it while bracing for 2012.

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'Bachelors and Bunnies'

May 18, 2011

A new book offers a revisionist interpretation of the history of Playboy. Scott McLemee looks closely.

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Transforming Terror

May 11, 2011

If 9/11 "changed everything," what did killing Osama bin Laden do? Scott McLemee looks at an anthology on the climate of terror.

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Atlas Shrunk

May 4, 2011

Ayn Rand's magnum opus took 54 years to put on the screen. Scott McLemee is underwhelmed by the result.

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Like a Rolling Stone

Apr 27, 2011

Critic and feminist thinker Ellen Willis is being honored with a conference and a posthumous collection of her rock writing. Scott McLemee wonders what took so long.

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Poisonous Knowledge

Apr 20, 2011

A new book looks at the narcopolitics of methamphetamine. Scott McLemee grinds his teeth while reading it.

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