Laura Kipnis Craft Talk – The Ironic Polemic (Or the Polemical Ironist)

You kill more flies with irony than with sledgehammers.

Laura Kipnis’s most recent book is Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus. The essay that inspired the book, “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe” was included in The Best American Essays 2016, edited by Jonathan Franzen.