Why Jazz Still Matters—and Why We’ve Forgotten How to Hear It: What Jazz Reveals About Black Culture, Friendship, and the Meaning We No Longer Know How to Make Together. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/why-jazz-s...

The Lost Art of Intimacy: Why My Students Can’t Connect. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-lost-a...

Beyond Critical Thinking: Teaching Students How to Argue. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/beyond-cri...

The Modernization of Music from Revelation to Mood Regulation: What We Lose When Sound Becomes a Service. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-modern...

Toward a Non-Scientistic Neuroscience: Why Neuroscience Needs the Humanities to Avoid Bad Science, False Certainty, and Real-World Harm. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/toward-a-n...

The Lost Art of Doing Something for its Own Sake: The Hobby's Rise and Fall. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-lost-a...

How Aesthetic Standards Change: Representation, Taste, and Why Artistic Representation Has Become a Culture War Battleground. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/how-aesthe...

Aging Gracefully is a Lie: On Aging, Dependency, and Cultural Evasion. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/aging-grac...

Sammy Davis Jr. and the Cultural Work of Integration Performance, Respectability, and the Limits of Representation in the Civil Rights Era. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/sammy-davi...

A Testament to What We’ve Lost -- The Testament of Ann Lee: Reverence, Renunciation, and Secular Mourning. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/a-testamen...

Brigitte Bardot and the Invention of Modern Sexiness: How Youth, Innocence, and Whiteness Reshaped the Political Economy of Desire. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/brigitte-b...

The End of the American University as We Knew It: And the Models Likely to Replace It. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

What ADHD Reveals About School, Status, and the Attention Economy: ADHD, Boredom, Focus, Simulants, and Institutional Design. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/what-adhd-...

When Words Still Mattered: Shakespeare, Language, and the Birth of Modern Historical Consciousness. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/when-words...

The Humanities Don’t Have a Relevance Problem—They Have a Preparation Problem: Why English and Philosophy majors are already essential to the AI economy, and universities still don’t know it. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-humani...

From Fraternity to Fratricide: The Sibling Relationship as Western Culture’s Master Trope. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/from-frate...

Dance as Embodied Ritual and Collective Memory: Alvin Ailey, Black Dance, and the Persistence of the Sacred in a Secular Age. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/dance-as-e...

Beyond Brain Disease and Blame: What We Get Wrong About Drugs, Addiction, and Agency. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/beyond-bra...

Liberation: A Powerful Play About Second-Wave Feminism—and What Came After. What Feminism Lost When Consciousness-Raising Disappeared. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/liberation...

When Love, Money, and Therapy Aren’t Enough: What Affluent Family Tragedies Reveal About the Limits of Our Mental-Health Paradigm. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/when-love-...

“It’s Not You. It’s the Age We Live In.” Breakup Lines and the Moral Theater of Modern Love. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/its-not-yo...

The New Media Ecosystem: From the Public Square to the Personal Feed. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-new-me...

2025: The Year the Crisis of the University Became Impossible to Ignore. Higher Ed’s Problems Are Structural—Not Just PR or Politics. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/2025-the-y...

A New Social Contract for Disability in Higher Ed: Why Today’s Disability Regime Undermines Student Growth—and How We Can Rebuild It Together. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/a-new-soci...

The New Disability Landscape: Why Our Frameworks No Longer Fit. Cognitive, Behavioral, and Anxiety-Based Disabilities Have Transformed Higher Education—But Our Models Haven’t Caught Up. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-new-di...

It’s Time to Rediscover Eugene O’Neill, This Country’s Greatest Dramatic Voice: Experiencing the Raw Unfiltered Power and Fierce Truths of O’Neill’s Anna Christie. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

The Cultural Nervous Breakdown Before the First World War: German Expressionism and the Crisis of Central European Modernity. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

The Long Afterlife of Liberal Imperialism: How British Rule Shaped Sudan’s Current Crises. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-long-a...

Therapists Can’t Fix What Society Broke: What the Classical Social Theorists Knew about the Price We Pay for Progress—and We’ve Forgotten. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/therapists...

The Amicable Divorce Essay: A Genre for Our Time. How Therapeutic Culture Reshaped Late-Life Marriage—and Why the Prestige Press Can’t Stop Writing About It. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-amicab...

The Humanities’ Lost Ambition: How Abandoning Old Strengths—and Failing to Build New Ones—Left the Field Unable to Explain the World It Claims to Study. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-humani...

Can Capitalism Be Historicized? The Challenge of Writing a Global History That Avoids Moralism, Economism, and Myth. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/can-capita...

Hamnet, Hamlet, and the Historical Imagination: Fiction, Fact, and the Making of a Cultural Inheritance. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/hamnet-ham...

The Outsiders Who Shaped American Popular Music: And What We Lost When Songwriting Ceased to be a Craft. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-outsid...

When Dissent Becomes a Crime: Suppressing Dissent in the Name of Freedom. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/when-disse...

The Metaphors We Heal By: Medicine’s 20th- and 21st-Century Conceptual Revolutions. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-metaph...

In Defense of Transgressive Texts: Reading ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore in the 21st Century. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/in-defense...

AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What? Reclaiming Learning in an Age of Distraction and Artificial Intelligence. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/ai-killed-...

The Hidden History of the Human Mind: How a Series of Cognitive Revolutions, Not Evolution, Created the Modern Self. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-hidden...

The Early Republic’s Roads Not Taken: The Power and Necessity of Counterfactual Thinking. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-early-...

What Ken Burns Won’t Tell You About How 1776 Built a Democracy—and an Empire: Founding Myths vs Founding Realities. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/what-ken-b...

What Worked No Longer Works: Rethinking Introductory Survey Courses in the Age of AI. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/what-worke...

Like Father, Like Son? The Mamdanis and the Netanyahus: Two Fathers, Two Sons, and the Politics of Inheritance. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/like-fathe...

The Multicultural Left: A New Political Formation or a Fragile Coalition? stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-multic...

Reclaiming Women’s Art Forms: Challenging the Boundaries Between Art and Craft. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/reclaiming...

The University of Nebraska Now Spends More on Administrators and Support Staff Than on Professors: And It’s Not an Outlier. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Terror as Therapy: The Vernacular Wisdom of Ghouls, Ghosts, and Goblins. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/terror-as-...

What Movie Catchphrases Can Teach Us About Academic Writing: Teaching Writing Through Taglines. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/what-movie...

Pity the Poor Harvard Undergrads: Crybabies on the Charles, or How the Meritocrats Mistook an Easy A for Genuine Accomplishment. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/pity-the-p...

Marlene Dietrich, Human Inhibition, and the Fantasy of the Unfettered Self: How a Movie Star Acted Out What We Dare Not Do. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/marlene-di...