Burnout Culture

On the power of looking away

We are at the mercy of online weirdos. It's time to exercise the real power we have over them.

Sep 16 • 

Jonathan Malesic

My next book: DEAR STUDENT

Letters on Life and Learning in College

Sep 8 • 

Jonathan Malesic

August 2025

A letter to new college students

Welcome to college in the age of AI and digital distraction. It's time to step up.

Aug 21 • 

Jonathan Malesic

May 2025

AI will revolutionize education the way a gambling addiction will revolutionize your bank account

I have a new essay in The Hedgehog Review on AI; I hope you'll read it

May 22 • 

Jonathan Malesic

April 2025

More on students and politics

Do we still believe the university contributes, through its teaching, to the common good?

Apr 4 • 

Jonathan Malesic

March 2025

Hope for democracy in GOVT 101

I wrote something, just published in Commonweal, about what's *really* going on politically on campus

Mar 26 • 

Jonathan Malesic

On getting mad at the newspaper (again)

Opinion pages are overrated

Mar 6 • 

Jonathan Malesic

January 2025

December 2024

The definitive summary of 2024

It's not a crisis of faith. It's an *opportunity* of faith.

Dec 23, 2024 • 

Jonathan Malesic

On beauty

It's overrated

Dec 17, 2024 • 

Jonathan Malesic

November 2024

Can art heal your attention?

I tried to find out (my attention, not yours specifically), then I wrote about it for Commonweal.

Nov 29, 2024 • 

Jonathan Malesic

"A trainwreck to write about"

On elections, teenage muses, articles about teenage muses, and other pretexts for lazy writing and tired ideas

Nov 25, 2024 • 

Jonathan Malesic