Joseph Epstein is an American writer who was the editor of the magazine The American Scholar from 1975 to 1997. Epstein has published a number of essays and essay collections, including Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing, published in 1985. In a December 2020 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, he suggested that Jill Biden stop using the academic title ‘Dr.’
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Joseph Epstein is an American writer who was the editor of the magazine The American Scholar from 1975 to 1997. Epstein has published a number of essays and essay collections, including Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing, published in 1985. Epstein’s essay \”Who Killed Poetry?\”, published in 1988, generated discussion in the literary community decades after its publication. In September 1970, Harper’s Magazine published an article by Epstein called \”HomoHetero: The Struggle for Sexual Identity\” that used the word ‘nigger’ to describe being gay.
In 2015, Epstein wrote an article for the Weekly Standard in which he mentioned the Harper’s article from 1970. In a December 2020 Wall Street Journal opinion piece, he suggested that Jill Biden stop using the academic title ‘Dr.,’ which she earned as a Doctor of Education. He also critiqued the title of her dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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