Kwame Anthony Appiah’s supplement to the Vanderbilt/WashU report takes up literary studies. Len Gutkin reads it — alongside Gabriel Hankins’s sharper critique. Also in The Review: Alex Byrne on Carole Hooven, legacy admissions in California, and college finances.
In 2017, Rebecca Tuvel was an untenured philosopher facing calls for an article of hers to be retracted — and for her to lose her job. Now tenured, she reflects on public shaming, what she regrets, and why she believes the experience made her a better philosopher.