Buzz Aldrin had one way of responding to conspiracy theorists. In our latest mailbag, @lornawallace.bsky.social offers some alternate approaches.
Buzz Aldrin had one way of responding to conspiracy theorists. In our latest mailbag, @lornawallace.bsky.social offers some alternate approaches.
The essay, about this now-closed museum, is free to read on our website.
We are in mailbag heaven at the magazine this year, and this is the latest and greatest. I would love to hear the conspiracy theories that you encounter when talking about your work with people outside the field. Do you take the same approaches as Lorna?
"The conversations I had with music critics were also a healthy reminder that scholars working in university departments have no monopoly on popular music discourse, to say nothing of intellectual conversation more generally."
Grant Wong with a postcard from PopCon (Randy Newman was not invited).
“How did human rights and development—two distinct concepts with unique histories—come to be so intertwined in U.S. foreign policy?”
For some who use “revisionist history” as a pejorative, the idea that history involves inquiry and interpretation is the problem itself.
“none of this is to say that academics and experts are always correct or shouldn’t be questioned, but it can be exhausting to be drawn into the same debates over and over again by people who either don’t understand the basics of the subject or are deliberately ignoring facts.”
If you are a donor to the magazine, you can now hear Allison Horrocks read her essay “When John Brown’s Body is Wax” over on our bonus podcast feed.
“In Shakespeare’s case, that pushback took the form of people doubting how someone of his background (a glovemaker’s son who was grammar school educated at best) could have risen to such literary heights. Essentially, this conspiracy theory is rooted in classism.”
There it is.
Buzz Aldrin had one way of responding to conspiracy theorists. In our latest mailbag, @lornawallace.bsky.social offers some alternate approaches.
