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Ed Simon

Editor in Chief of Belt Magazine; Adjunct Instructor in English, Carnegie Mellon University
Chapter Member: Central Pennsylvania SSN
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About Ed

Simon's research and public writing focus on religious literacy, pluralism, free speech, religious rhetoric in progressive politics, American civil religion, humanities funding, the public humanities, and social justice. He was a founding member of the International Society for Heresy Studies, and is currently a senior editor at The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of the Los Angeles Review of Books. 

Contributions | No Jargon Podcast | In the News | Publications

Contributions

How Progressives and Liberals Can Speak Powerfully about a New American Covenant and National Purpose

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In the News

"There Shouldn't Be Any Statues Honoring Robert E. Lee Anywhere," Ed Simon, History News Network, August 16, 2017.
"When Will Trump Use the Phrase "Radical White Supremacist Terrorism?"," Ed Simon, Newsweek, August 16, 2017.
"Why Did Stephen Miller Deride the Noble Words at the Base of the Statue of Liberty?," Ed Simon, Newsweek, August 6, 2017.
"Killing Free Speech. Et Tu Delta? Et Tu Bank of America?," Ed Simon, Newsweek, June 16, 2017.

Publications

"America and Other Fictions: On Radical Faith and Post-Religion" (Zero Books, forthcoming).

Considers our current cultural and political crisis, asking what use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse?

"Furnace of This World; or, 36 Observations about Goodness" (Zero Books, forthcoming).

Attempts to provide a fragmentary, digressive, impressionistic account of what the radical implications of goodness could possibly be in late capitalism.

"The Death of God, Again" The Marginalia Review of Books (2016).

Discusses the Death of God movement, modernity, and the affirmation of God.

"The Crucified God: A Death in Pictures" The Marginalia Review of Books (2017).

Discusses the importance of the crucifix and the death of God.

"Why Sin is Good" The Marginalia Review of Books (2017).

Discusses the original sin for a secular age.

The Anthology of Babel (Punctum Books, 2018).

Publishes academic articles by scholars on authors, books, and movements that are completely invented. Inaugurates a completely new literary genre perfectly attuned to the era we live in, a project evocative of Jorge-Luis Borges, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino.