Russ Castronovo

Russ Castronovo is Director of the Center for the Humanities and Tom Paine Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  His most recent book, American Insecurity and the Origins of Vulnerability, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press.


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Homeland Security Theater

These new DHS-funded graphic novels want to train citizens to be critical readers of all kinds of information, except their own propaganda.

How Ayn Rand Got into the White House

Even though the Trump administration seems to be conducting policy by Twitter, texts longer than 140 characters are rumored to be central to its worldview …