Reading and Writing

Laurence Claussen

Oct 25, 20214 min read

Is there such a thing as too much New York Times?

The other day I was listening to my usual U.S politics podcast. Specifically, I was listening to an interesting episode about the decline...

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Laurence Claussen

Jul 23, 20214 min read

Charles Dickens' Great Expectations: A Review

I started Great Expectations around the time I began working on my graduate thesis and after I had read Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and...

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Laurence Claussen

Jun 30, 20216 min read

Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Review

For a long time, I resisted reading this book. It was unappealing, somehow, and despite recommendations I did not want to give it a...

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Laurence Claussen

Jun 12, 20214 min read

Political Narrative and Personal Decency: How to Confront our Confederate Past

Adapted from a paper I wrote during Grad School. In May 2017, the then mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, gave a speech that made him...

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Laurence Claussen

May 22, 20213 min read

Reading Five 19th Century Classics

Over the past two years, at intervals of several months, I have read Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and...

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