Carlin Romano is an American writer and educator. Romano writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education. Career Romano was a writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. He previously taught at Ursinus College and Bennington College. In 1981, Romano reviewed books about philosophers for The Village Voice Literary Supplement and one book for The New Yorker. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, Times Literary Supplement, and elsewhere. Romano contributed an article on Umberto Eco to Oxford University Press's Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. In 1993, Romano wrote an essay for Danto and His Critics entitled, "Looking Beyond the Visible: The Case of Arthur C. Danto," about art critic Arthur Danto. In his essay, Romano sets up a dichotomy between "pragmatism" and "Hegelianism" and finds statements in Danto's books that he claims fit into one of these two schools of thought. The Institution of Philosophy: A Discipline in Crisis? (published 1989 by Open Court, edited by Avner Cohen and Marcelo Dascal), includes a proposal by Romano to set up a World Court of Philosophy in which appointed philosophers would stipulate philosophical conclusions. He wrote America the Philosophical, a book with the main claim that the current United States has the "most philosophical culture in the history of the world." In 2013 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship. In June 2020 Romano was at the center of a controversy within the board of the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), on which Romano has served periodically since the 1990s. In private communications between board members that were later leaked on social media, Romano objected to parts of the NBCC board's forthcoming statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and characterized the statement's overall message as "absolute nonsense". The fallout from his comments, which some of his fellow NBCC board members viewed as racist, spurred waves of resignations by more than half of the NBCC board members, leaving the future of the institution and its leadership uncertain. Life Romano was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Princeton University. He took an M.Phil. in philosophy from Yale University and a J.D. from Columbia University. One of the Fulbright Scholars in 2002, he lectured at Smolny State University, St. Petersburg. He was a Joan Shorenstein Center fellow