Patrick Blanchfield is a journalist, critic, podcaster, and associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR). He is a columnist at n+1 and a contributing editor at Parapraxis Magazine, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic, Bookforum, Dissent, Foreign Policy, The Intercept, Business Insider, Foreign Policy, Esquire, and many other venues. Together with Abby Kluchin, he cohosts Ordinary Unhappiness, a podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Emory University and an AB from Harvard College. He is also a graduate of the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute’s four-year clinical training program.