I’ve put together an In Memoriam page dedicated to SEK, with links from all of our posts this week, all of the other remembrances that I could find, and his collected works. If you know of anything else worth adding, please let me know in comments.
Month: November 2016
Trading a 1st round pick for Sam Bradford was a really dumb idea. I did enjoy the fact that Bradford’s sub-mediocrity managed to wake Simms from his usual slumber after some non-era and non-yard
In the immediate aftermath of the election, Kara Brown had a loving tribute to Jill Stein: Without ever possessing even a sliver of a chance of maybe possibly ever becoming President of the United Sta
As Brockington mentioned earlier, I was placed on the Professor Watch List, a rather lame but not unserious attempt by right-wingers to intimidate supposedly leftist professors in the age of Trump. On the face of it, this list is stupid. It has a bunch of people on it who are not even radicals, but rather […]
A couple of days after the election I estimated that Clinton would end up winning the popular vote by about two million ballots. That now seems like a significant underestimate. As of this morning,
This is daunting. Daunting not only because I’ve been pondering how one writes about someone as talented as SEK, someone who had an inimitable ability to see the world from a different angle than mo
Like most of my colleagues, I never met Scott in “real life.” Although it’s an increasingly odd thing to say; after all, I interact more with most of my closest friends from “real life” online, and it’s not really less real. His horribly premature death is a tragedy I haven’t even begun to process yet […]
My interactions with SEK were like many of blogging colleagues. I never met him but I talked to him a lot online. While no one ever had as many weird things happen to him as Scott, I have had a number
On the web, Scott was an army unto himself. Here’s a non-exhaustive listing of his works: Salon The Valve Raw Story Acephalous Edge of the American West Lawyers, Guns and Money A.V. Club Oldma
My friend Scott Eric Kaufman has passed away. Scott was a brilliant writer, a deeply compassionate man, an incredibly caring friend, someone whose boundless confidence in my ability got me through a lot of setbacks and dry spells, and one of the few people I’ve met who saw and thought about the world so much […]
This is the closest I ever came to meeting SEK: The second closest was in February 2015, while I was in New Orleans for the International Studies Association conference. We planned to get together, bu
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I didn’t know Scott Eric Kaufman well, but I knew him well enough to know that the refusal of the American university to find room for a scholar and writer and speaker of his talent is and will