Max Wade

Writing

My Substack is home to most of my non-academic writing.

For the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog

“The Dance of Reality: Plotinus and the Activity of the Whole”. Published Nov. 18, 2024.

“Our Duties to the Earth: Pliny the Elder as a Proto-Environmentalist”. Published Dec. 12, 2022.

For Grasping Water

The Eye, the Universe, and the Revolt Against Vision. Published Nov. 1, 2025.

My review of the 1980 film “Altered States”: ontology recapitulates physiognomy. Published Sep. 22, 2024.

For tongue .etc

The Writing Disease: An Essay on Alcidamas of Elaea’s “On Sophists”. Published Feb. 3, 2026. Republished from my Substack.

N.b.: I also serve as an editor for tongue .etc.

For THELIFTEDVEIL

On Doubt. Published May 6, 2026. Republished from my Substack.

Undergrad Publications

“Walter Benjamin’s ‘Über den Begriff der Geschichte’ and the Marxist Tradition.” Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College 6, no. 1 (2019): 61–74.

“New from 1622: Fray Domingo de Jesús María, the Boncompagni, and the Gesualdo of Naples.” for the Archivo Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi blog. Published Jun. 19, 2018. The research in this article was showcased as part of the Rutgers University Honors College features, “Research Worthy of an Episode of Game of Thrones.”

I also wrote an article for Proteus: The Rutgers University Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature in 2019 on Otto Weininger but this seems to have been lost to time.

Travel Writing

“Beyond Clam Chowder and Lobster Rolls: Dock and dine on authentic New England Dishes” for Marina Life Magazine. Published Apr. 2024.