🎭 Culture Sep 8, 2026 · Esther L. Jones

The Revolutionary Scholar

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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Anniversaries are times for reflection and celebration. But they also offer the opportunity to speculate, to cast hopes and dreams into a future unknown. All too often, we imagine this future as a vast and shapeless void in which anything becomes possible if only we dare to dream it. But any future is invariably shaped by the now that we allow, and the past that we choose to forget.
As a scholar of science fiction—or what I prefer to call speculative fiction, for its more comprehensive implicati

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