The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - May 27, 2026


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In this week's issue:

  • Simon Sebag Montefiore publicly challenging The Economist over its review of Molly Crabapple's new history of the Bund — naming the specific Bundist leaders Stalin had shot in the back of the neck
  • Naomi Kanakia's new Princeton UP book making the left case for the Great Books — launched the same day at McNally Jackson Seaport
  • A network of fake academic journals publishing over 100 AI-generated papers under real professors' names without their knowledge
  • Dan DiPiero in the Cleveland Review of Books on what happens to humanists who try to write outside the academy
  • Sheila Liming's Yale Review essay opening with a dumpster behind her university's library
  • Read carefully.

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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy