Erroll McDonald

Erroll McDonald is a Vice President and Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf, and a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Rail.

Certainty—not religion, as Marx postulated—might be “the opium of the people”: implacable, unfounded, lulling belief (maximal subjectivity) masquerading as universal, absolute truth (maximal objectivity).

Portrait of Erroll McDonald, pencil on paper by Phong H. Bui.

Close

Home