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Tom McBride

Tom McBride is professor of English and Keefer professor of humanities at Beloit College, Wisconsin. His work has appeared in Britannica.com, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other publications. He is co-editor of Beloit’s internationally famous and annual Mindset List.

Recent articles


The United States of Vidal

Can a man be a sensualist and a moralist, a conservative and a liberal, an iconoclast and a nostalgist – all at one time? Tom McBride seeks the answer in two studies of Gore Vidal.

Big ideas and wandering fools: Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

The great Chicago novelist created a unique imaginative universe that made sense of modern human experience of crisis and change, says Tom McBride.