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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.

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Race

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.

Jonathan Beecher Field

Arts in Society

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.

Jonathan Beecher Field

Politics

This Is Not a Witch Hunt

Trump would do well to remember that it is only a witch hunt if the accusations are untrue.

Jonathan Beecher Field

Race

Statue Mania

Focusing only on Confederate monuments misses that racism is memorialized everywhere.

Jonathan Beecher Field

       

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