PAUL STOB is Associate Professor of Communication Studies of Vanderbilt University. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of rhetoric and intellectual culture, with particular emphasis on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era in the United States. He is the author of William James & the Art of Popular Statement (Michigan State University Press, 2013). Currently he is working on a book tentatively titled Knowledge, Power, and the People: Intellectual Populism in American Thought and Culture, 1870–1915, which explores the work of various intellectuals who tried to resist the institutionalization of knowledge.