Jonathan Beecher Field
Jonathan Beecher Field is an associate professor of English at Clemson University, and the author of Town Hall Meetings and the Death of Deliberation.
Is There a War on Thanksgiving?
Some on the right insist that efforts to curtail Thanksgiving are in reality sinister attempts to rewrite the country’s history.
Some Statues Are Like Barbed Wire
Activists fighting to remove statues of slavers and colonizers understand better than most how public memorials can be a form of violence.
Got Shakespeare?
When conservatives declare the death of the English major, they highlight the need for the critical thinking skills that English departments excel at teaching.
