By: Mark Kingwell

Walter Benjamin “allowed me to survive Heidegger.”

By: Mark Kingwell

“For whom does the telephone bell toll?”

By: Mark Kingwell

He was haunted by his memories of destroying a Benedictine monastery.

By: Mark Kingwell

Media, culture, and ideology are the battleground of the soul.

By: Mark Kingwell

He called the United States a “moronic inferno,” a phrase that stuck.

By: Mark Kingwell

A Veblen­esque tartness, under­written by a sincere commit­ment to a better world.

By: Mark Kingwell

Kirk teaches his drill thrall to kiss

By: Mark Kingwell

There is a kind of artist whose career makes no sense.

By: Mark Kingwell

The first man to say “fuck” on the airwaves of the BBC.

By: Mark Kingwell

His horn rendered a neurotic Scott Fitzgerald beauty in sound.

By: Mark Kingwell

Ironic bite, elegant judg­mentalism, cut-glass elegance

By: Mark Kingwell

“Yale Scholar Wrote for Pro-Nazi Newspaper”

By: Mark Kingwell

Without him there would be no Nashville scene.

By: Mark Kingwell

He urged an endless, playful agonistics of intellectual engagement.

By: Mark Kingwell

He analyzed the motives of every act, including the act of analysis.