
thenewcritic.com
May 14, 2026
21 min read
55/100
Summary
The Great Zombification “And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student chatter.” THE NEW CRITIC Owen Yingling is a 21-year-old writer and assistant editor of The New Critic from Arlington, Virginia. He studies Philosophy at The University of Chicago. Today, the demonic vice of the old is not that they...