What a week this has been. I don’t feel like writing – not this blog, not anything else.  So it’s more than okay if you don’t feel like reading. But maybe if I make myself hit this gentlest of deadlines – writing a weekly blog post for an intellectual community that has become my professional home and the one enduring institutional affiliation in my otherwise peripatetic academic life – maybe, I say, if I hit this deadline that is less an obligation than an honor, then I can find some sustainable rhythm of writing through the apparently imminent collapse of Read more