Soccer Solidarity

I arrived in Paris on May 11 with one mission: to finish the book manuscript that I need for tenure. It has certainly been a longer journey than I expected when I first set out to write a book on the French political thinker Raymond Aron. I defended my dissertation about him in 2016, but I gave up on turning it into a book when the academic job market started falling apart and I began looking for alternative opportunities. Fortunately for me, I received a job offer from Wesleyan University in 2021. This meant that I had to return to the Aron book.