Jeffrey J. Williams - Dissent Magazine

Innovation for What? The Politics of Inequality in Higher Education

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ Winter 2016

Today’s embrace of “innovation” in higher ed advances the interests of the business elite over those of educators or students.

The Plutocratic Imagination

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ Winter 2013

Books discussed in this essay: A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, Knopf, 2010, 288 pp. A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers, McSweeney’s, 2012, 328 pp. Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris, Little, …

Occupy’s Statement on Student Debt

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ June 1, 2012

Jeffrey Williams: Occupy’s Statement on Student Debt

Chipping Away at Student Debt

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ May 14, 2012

Jeffrey Williams: Chipping Away at Student Debt

What a New Play Says About Higher Education

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ March 15, 2012

J. Williams: A Seminar on Broadway

Occupying Student Debt

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ January 30, 2012

Jeffrey Williams: Occupying Student Debt

Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ July 22, 2011

Jeffrey Williams: Contemporary Fiction and Creative Writing

The Shell Game of Higher Education Funding

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ May 31, 2011

Jeffrey Williams: The Shell Game of Higher Education Funding

Student Debt Reform

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ January 19, 2011

Jeffrey Williams: Student Debt Reform

How to Be an Intellectual: The Cases of Richard Rorty and Andrew Ross

Jeffrey J. Williams ▪ Winter 2011

In the Fall 1991 issue of Dissent, Richard Rorty published an essay called “Intellectuals in Politics.” It was not a profile of model figures but something of a jeremiad, castigating American intellectuals for their disconnection from politics and standing by …