Henry Oliver
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Research Fellow
Henry Oliver is a Research Fellow and Emerging Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is the author of Second Act (2024) and writes the literary Substack The Common Reader, which has been quoted in The Atlantic and featured in outlets such as The New York Times, GQ, and The Free Press. Among many other projects and podcasts, he is currently working on a paper about Jane Austen and Adam Smith for a journal submission.
Latest Work
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | The Common Reader
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Rather Better Pasturage for Their Cows | The Common Reader
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Tolkien in Poets’ Corner | The Common Reader
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English Departments Have Lost the Plot | RealClearPolitics
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My plea to English students. | The Common Reader
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There is no such thing as a ‘text’, and if there were it would degrade literature to be treated as one. | The Common Reader
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My new essay about Samuel Johnson | The Common Reader
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Can phones explain PISA? | The Common Reader
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AI and the future of the humanities | The Common Reader
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What is literary criticism if it is not close reading? Art, Magic, and Common Sense. | The Common Reader
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Philip Hensher: How Can You Kill a Book Like That? | The Common Reader
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Reviewing a Season on Arts and Liberalism with Benjamin Brophy | The Pursuit of Liberalism
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F. A. Hayek and the Heart of Viennese Intellectual Culture with Erwin Dekker | Pursuit Of Liberalism
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Do the dead have to go unburied before Britain accepts economic reality? | Pursuit Of Liberalism
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Chaïm Soutine and the Extremes of Art with Celeste Marcus | Pursuit Of Liberalism
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Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding | The Common Reader
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The intangibility of 'good taste,' from literature to food | The Colin McEnroe Show
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Henry Adams, Democracy, and the Morality of Politics with Christopher Scalia | Pursuit of Liberalism
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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Oliver Traldi: Jane Austen and the Defence of Virtue | The Common Reader
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Recovering the Soul of Liberalism | Qualified Opinions
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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Rather Better Pasturage for Their Cows | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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Tolkien in Poets’ Corner | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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English Departments Have Lost the Plot | RealClearPolitics
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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My plea to English students. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
There is no such thing as a ‘text’, and if there were it would degrade literature to be treated as one. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
My new essay about Samuel Johnson | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Can phones explain PISA? | The Common Reader
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
AI and the future of the humanities | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What is literary criticism if it is not close reading? Art, Magic, and Common Sense. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Rather Better Pasturage for Their Cows | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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Tolkien in Poets’ Corner | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
English Departments Have Lost the Plot | RealClearPolitics
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
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My plea to English students. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
There is no such thing as a ‘text’, and if there were it would degrade literature to be treated as one. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
My new essay about Samuel Johnson | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Can phones explain PISA? | The Common Reader
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
AI and the future of the humanities | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What is literary criticism if it is not close reading? Art, Magic, and Common Sense. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
Philip Hensher: How Can You Kill a Book Like That? | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
Reviewing a Season on Arts and Liberalism with Benjamin Brophy | The Pursuit of Liberalism
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
F. A. Hayek and the Heart of Viennese Intellectual Culture with Erwin Dekker | Pursuit Of Liberalism
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
Do the dead have to go unburied before Britain accepts economic reality? | Pursuit Of Liberalism
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
Chaïm Soutine and the Extremes of Art with Celeste Marcus | Pursuit Of Liberalism
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
Zena Hitz: Gulliver's Travels and the Failures of Human Understanding | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
The intangibility of 'good taste,' from literature to food | The Colin McEnroe Show
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
Henry Adams, Democracy, and the Morality of Politics with Christopher Scalia | Pursuit of Liberalism
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Mercatus Podcasts Mercatus Podcasts
Oliver Traldi: Jane Austen and the Defence of Virtue | The Common Reader
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- | Podcast Appearance Podcast Appearance
Recovering the Soul of Liberalism | Qualified Opinions
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Rather Better Pasturage for Their Cows | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Tolkien in Poets’ Corner | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
English Departments Have Lost the Plot | RealClearPolitics
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
My plea to English students. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
There is no such thing as a ‘text’, and if there were it would degrade literature to be treated as one. | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
My new essay about Samuel Johnson | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
Can phones explain PISA? | The Common Reader
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- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
AI and the future of the humanities | The Common Reader
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- | Emerging Scholars Program Emerging Scholars Program
- | Expert Commentary Expert Commentary
What is literary criticism if it is not close reading? Art, Magic, and Common Sense. | The Common Reader