Kipnis

Laura Kipnis is a professor in the radio-television-film department at Northwestern University.

Why is Eliot Spitzer on TV? Because disgrace doesn't stick like it used to. Laura Kipnis 2010

Now, Kipnis is right that a lack of an "institutional" method of penitence allows for each scandalizer to move toward social reconciliation in his own way, and that this can sometimes -- as in the case of Spitzer -- preclude real atonement.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Why Reality TV Is the Best Place to Reinvent Your Image Simon Maxwell Apter 2010

Now, Kipnis is right that a lack of an "institutional" method of penitence allows for each scandalizer to move toward social reconciliation in his own way, and that this can sometimes -- as in the case of Spitzer -- preclude real atonement.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Why Reality TV Is the Best Place to Reinvent Your Image Simon Maxwell Apter 2010

Now, Kipnis is right that a lack of an "institutional" method of penitence allows for each scandalizer to move toward social reconciliation in his own way, and that this can sometimes -- as in the case of Spitzer -- preclude real atonement.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Why Reality TV Is the Best Place to Reinvent Your Image Simon Maxwell Apter 2010

Now, Kipnis is right that a lack of an "institutional" method of penitence allows for each scandalizer to move toward social reconciliation in his own way, and that this can sometimes -- as in the case of Spitzer -- preclude real atonement.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Why Reality TV Is the Best Place to Reinvent Your Image Simon Maxwell Apter 2010

Now, Kipnis is right that a lack of an "institutional" method of penitence allows for each scandalizer to move toward social reconciliation in his own way, and that this can sometimes -- as in the case of Spitzer -- preclude real atonement.

Simon Maxwell Apter: Why Reality TV Is the Best Place to Reinvent Your Image Simon Maxwell Apter 2010

Kipnis is a revised dissertation published by the Columbia University Press which traces the sectarian infighting among Debs, Morris Hillquit, and William D. “Big Bill” Haywood over the tactics to take in opposing capitalism.

Matthew Yglesias » Breaking: Michelle Obama Reads Books 2010

And as Laura Kipnis railed in Against Love, and as everyone knows, Good relationships take work.

Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off 2009

For all their delusion, Kipnis makes clear that these were people who did what they somehow thought they had to do.

Laura Kipnis's "How to Become a Scandal," reviewed by Ellen McCarthy Ellen McCarthy 2010

Maybe soon Kipnis or someone else will tell me and Robert Wright -- and the rest of America -- about the spell that we're under.

Laura Kipnis's "How to Become a Scandal," reviewed by Ellen McCarthy Ellen McCarthy 2010