Cole Adams is a scholar and critic based in Providence, Rhode Island. He received his PhD in Literature from Duke University in May 2026.
Cole Adams
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Writing on Public Books
The Last Graduate Students?
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying spectacle—face the final chopping block: public good, responsibility to others, democracy itself.”
