The Independent Scholar

The Independent Scholar - May 30, 2026

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In this week's issue:

  • Stefan Collini on the UK university system as near-accomplished ruin, with data
  • James Marriott's The New Dark Ages and the question of whether literary studies invented its own crisis
  • Geoff Shullenberger applying Lukács to Silicon Valley's Singularity faith
  • A book about AI corrupting truth, undermined by AI-fabricated quotes
  • A lost Leonora Carrington painting found with her psychiatrist's heirs after 80 years
  • Modern Intellectual History's most-read list and the field's non-Western turn

    • Let's get into it.

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    The Independent ScholarBy Julia Murphy