"They are running it like an editorialized magazine."
This is the odd thing about Medium - it's a bit like an editorialized magazine but with no editorial line or identity. If I want to read people writing about academic arts and humanities topics for a non-academic audience, I might go read the London Review of Books; if I want to read extensively researched but also personal essays, I'll read the New Yorker. If I read Medium I get - what? Some stuff written by people on the internet that some other people on the internet thought was good?
This is the odd thing about Medium - it's a bit like an editorialized magazine but with no editorial line or identity. If I want to read people writing about academic arts and humanities topics for a non-academic audience, I might go read the London Review of Books; if I want to read extensively researched but also personal essays, I'll read the New Yorker. If I read Medium I get - what? Some stuff written by people on the internet that some other people on the internet thought was good?