This is a list of my reviews, alphabetized by the title of the reviewed work.
Great Scott
Published in Inference on 01 November, 2017
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$$Kudzu$$
Published in Baffler on 01 July, 2023
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2020 Vision
Published in The News Lens - Taiwan on 30 October, 2020
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9/11: An Exchange with Michael Walzer. Dissent Magazine Website, September 2001. (No longer available.)
Published in Dissent on 25 September, 2001
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A Company of Readers: Uncollected Writings of W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, and Lionel Trilling from The Readers’ Subscription and Mid-Century Book Clubs.Edited with an Introduction by Arthur Krystal. Foreword by Jacques Barzun.
Published in Washington Post on 07 October, 2001
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A Farewell to Virtue: the Literature of Cultural Complaint
Published in Dissent on 29 January, 1995
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A Jacques Barzun Reader, edited by Michael Murray, HarperCollins, 615 pages, $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 31 March, 2002
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A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War by Harry V. Jaffa. Rowman and Littlefield, 549 pages, $35.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 14 January, 2001
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A Partisan Century: Political Writings From Partisan Review, edited by Edith Kurzweil. Columbia University Press, 1996. 409 pp. $49.00, cloth; $19.50, paper
Published in Dissent on 01 April, 1997
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A Partisan Century: Political Writings from Partisan Review edited by Edith Kurzweil. Columbia University Press, 409 pp.
Published in Dissent on 01 April, 1997
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A Prophet, Honored
Published in Harvard Review on 01 May, 1995
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A Requiem for Karl Marx by Frank Manuel. Harvard University Press, 255 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 September, 1995
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A Tired Hero, At Rest: A Memoir of Irving Howe
Published in Harvard Review on 07 October, 1993
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A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints edited by Paul Elie, with an introduction by Robert Coles. Harcourt Brace, 325 pp., $22.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 December, 1994
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Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization by Richard Manning, North Point Press; Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil by David Goodstein, Norton; and The Coming Generational Storm
Published in Boston Globe on 04 April, 2004
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Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the Twentieth Century edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball. Ivan R. Dee, 463 PP., $35 (cloth), $16.95 (paper).
Published in Dissent on 01 September, 1995
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All the Names by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harcourt, 238 pages, $24.
Published in Boston Globe on 11 February, 2001
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An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future by Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, 393 pp., $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 27 September, 1998
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Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind by David Cesarani. Free Press, 646 pp., $30.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 January, 2000
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels and A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined by Reynolds Price.
Published in Boston Globe on 24 August, 2003
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Buried Alive: Essays on Our Endangered Republic. By Walter Karp. Edited by Lewis Lapham and Ellen Rosenbush. Franklin Square Press. 279 pages, $21.95; $14.95 paper.
Published in The Nation on 23 August, 1993
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Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame by Benita Eisler, Knopf, 840 pp., $35.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 09 May, 1999
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Charlie Johnson in the Flames by Michael Ignatieff, Grove Press, 179 pp., $22.00.
Published in Washington Post on 25 January, 2004
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Children of Darkness and Light by Nicholas Mosley. Dalkey Archive Press, 241 pp., $13.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 20 July, 1997
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Cities in Civilization by Sir Peter Hall. Pantheon, 1169 pp., $40
Published in Boston Globe on 13 December, 1998
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Civilizations: Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Free Press, 545 pages, $35.00.
Published in on 05 August, 2001
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Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays by David Lodge. Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 05 January, 2003
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Crowds and Culture
Published in Harvard Review on 01 October, 1992
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Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha Nussbaum and Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom by Victor Hanson and John Heath
Published in Dissent on 07 October, 1999
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Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said, Knopf, 380 pages, $25.00.
Published in Agni on 07 October, 1993
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Debating P.C.: The Controversy over Political Correctness on College Campuses edited by Paul Berman. Dell, 338 pp., $8.00 (paper).
Published in LA Weekly on 27 March, 1993
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Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophyby Michael J. Sandel. Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 June, 1996
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Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future. By Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 367 pages $25.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 06 September, 1994
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Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future. By Richard Bernstein Knopf $25.00.; Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. By Russell Jacoby. Doubleday $22.95.
Published in on 15 December, 1994
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Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. By Russsell Jacoby. Doubleday, 235 pp., $22.95
Published in Boston Globe on 31 May, 1994
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Don’ t Think, Smile: Notes on a Decade of Denial by Ellen Willis. Beacon Press, 192 pp., $24.00.
Published in Dissent on 01 October, 1999
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Economic Justice by Stephen Nathanson, Prentice-Hall, 144 pages.
Published in Dissent on 01 April, 1998
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Emerson by Lawrence Buell
Published in Boston Globe on 01 June, 2003
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Enlightenment’s Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age. By John Gray. Routledge, 1996. 203 pp., $29.95.
Published in Dissent on 01 September, 1996
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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age by Bill McKibben, Times Books, 271 pages, $25.
Published in Boston Review on 07 October, 2003
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Errata: An Examined Life by George Steiner. Yale University Press, 206 pp., $24.95.
Published in LA Weekly on 03 April, 1998
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Errata: An Examined Life by George Steiner. Yale University Press, 206 pp., $24.95.
Published in LA Weekly on 03 April, 1998
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Flaubert: A Life by Geoffrey Wall.
Published in Boston Globe on 01 September, 2002
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From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun
Published in Boston Globe on 11 June, 2000
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Genuine Reality: A Life of William James by Linda Simon. Harcourt Brace, 466 pp., $35.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 15 March, 1998
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George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton. Allen Lane/Penguin, 465 pp., $32.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 01 June, 1997
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Gladstone: A Biography by Roy Jenkins. Random House, 698 pp., $35.00; The Two Mr. Gladstones: A Study in Psychology and History by Travis L. Crosby. Yale University Press, 287 pp.
Published in Boston Globe on 18 February, 1997
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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz. Norton, 282 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 28 July, 2002
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God: A Biography. By Jack Miles. Knopf 446 pp. $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 09 April, 1995
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Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930sby Hope Hale Davis. Steerforth Press, 337 pp., $24.00
Published in Boston Globe on 20 November, 1994
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H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells by Michael Foot. Counterpoint, 344 pp., $29.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 07 January, 1996
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How Democratic Is the American Constitution? by Robert Dahl , Yale University Press, 198 pages, $19.95.
Published in The American Prospect on 01 July, 2002
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How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. Norton, 660 pp., $29.95 and The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain by Terrence W. Deacon. Norton, 527 pp., $27.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 09 November, 1997
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Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover. Yale University Press, 464 pages, $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 October, 2000
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If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich? By G. A. Cohen. Harvard University Press, 233 pages, $35.00 and Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty. Penguin Books, 288 pages, $13.95.
Published in Dissent on 07 March, 2001
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In Babylon by Marcel Moring, translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. William Morrow, 417 pages, $24.
Published in Boston Globe on 09 April, 2000
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In Defense of Elitism. By William A. Henry III. Doubleday, 212 pages. $20.
Published in Boston Globe on 29 September, 1994
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In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance by David Thomson. Knopf, 330 pp. $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 26 December, 1999
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In Siberia by Colin Thubron. HarperCollins, 286 pages, $26.
Published in Boston Globe on 20 February, 2002
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Is There an American Empire? A Response to Michael Walzer
Published in Dissent on 07 January, 2004
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John Maynard Keynes: A Biography, vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946 by Robert Skidelsky. Viking, 580 pp., $34.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 24 February, 2002
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John Ruskin: The Later Years by Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 656 pages, $35.
Published in Boston Globe on 16 July, 2000
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Jonathan Swift: A Portrait by Victoria Glendinning. Henry Holt, 324 pp., $35.00
Published in Boston Globe on 13 June, 1999
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Just Curious: Essays by Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin, 248 pp., $21.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 08 January, 1995
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Keats by Andrew Motion. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 636 pp., $35.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 08 February, 1998
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Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest by Alex Shoumatoff. Knopf, 516 pp., $30.
Published in Boston Globe on 24 August, 1997
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Marcel Proust: A Life by William Carter. Yale University Press, 946 pages, $35 and Marcel Proust: A Life by Jean-Yves Tadié, translated by Euan Cameron. Viking, 986 pages, $40.
Published in Boston Globe on 01 October, 2000
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Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West, edited by Page Stegner. Henry Holt, 359 pp., $25.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 August, 1998
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Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedyby John Patrick Diggins. Basic Books, 334 pp., $35.
Published in Boston Globe on 18 August, 1996
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Message from Room 101
Published in Agni on 01 April, 2003
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Moral Freedom: The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice by Alan Wolfe, W. W. Norton, 224 pp., $24.95.
Published in The American Prospect on 23 April, 2001
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More Matter: Essays and Criticism by John Updike. Knopf, 900 pages, $35.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 October, 1999
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My Other Life by Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, 456 pp.
Published in Boston Globe on 15 December, 1996
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Nature Writing: The Tradition in English, edited by Robert Finch and John Elder. Norton, 1152 pages, $39.95
Published in Boston Globe on 02 May, 2002
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Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea by Irving Kristol. The Free Press, 493 pp., $25.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 17 December, 1995
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One Man’s Bible by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 450 pages, $26.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 17 November, 2002
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One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About: God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other by Alan Wolfe, Viking, 359 pp., $24.95.
Published in Commonwealth on 07 June, 1998
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Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution by Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 256 pp., $25.00.
Published in The American Prospect on 03 June, 2002
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Paradise by Larry McMurtry. Simon & Schuster, 159 pp., $24.00.
Published in Washington Post on 17 June, 2001
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Pasolini Requiem. By Barth David Schwartz. Pantheon, 785 pages, $35.00.
Published in Boston Book Review on 01 December, 1993
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Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism. By Brad Leithauser. Knopf, 291pp., $25.
Published in Boston Globe on 21 February, 1995
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Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness by Dan Lloyd, MIT Press, 357 pp, $24.95; Turing (A Novel about Computation) by Christos Papadimitriou. MIT Press, 284 pp., $24.95; and Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies,
Published in Boston Globe on 01 February, 2004
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Rebecca West: A Life by Carl Rollyson. Scribner, 511 pp., $35.00
Published in Boston Globe on 17 November, 1996
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Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest, W. W. Norton, 317 pages, $27.95.
Published in Agni on 07 October, 2001
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Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett.
Published in Boston Globe on 13 July, 2003
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler. HarperCollins, 402 pp., $26.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 April, 2001
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Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life by Stephen Jay Gould. Library of Contemporary Thought, 241 pp., $18.95 and The Secular Mind by Robert Coles. Princeton Univ. Press, 189 pp., $19.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 30 May, 1999
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Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy by Robert H. Wiebe. University of Chicago Press, 321 PP.
Published in In These Times on 18 September, 1995
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Socialist Register 2004 Leo Panitch and Colin Leys editors and After the Empire by Emmanuel Todd
Published in Dissent on 07 March, 2004
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Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 510 pages, $27.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 31 December, 2000
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Stories from the City of God: Sketches and Chronicles of Rome, 1950-1966 by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Edited by Walter Siti, translated by Marina Harss. Other Press, 232 pages, $24.
Published in The Nation on 09 February, 2004
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Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock. Norton, 370 pages, $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 30 July, 2000
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T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life by Lyndall Gordon. Norton, 721 pp., $35
Published in Boston Globe on 22 August, 1999
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THE SEALED ENVELOPE
Published in Agni on 01 April, 1994
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Terror and Liberalism by Paul Berman. Norton, 214 pages, $21.00.
Published in The Nation on 10 April, 2003
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The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art by Arthur Danto, Open Court, 167 pp., $19.95 and Speaking of Beauty by Denis Donoghue, Yale University Press, 209 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 November, 2003
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The American Century by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker, Knopf, 710 pages, $50.
Published in Boston Globe on 01 November, 1998
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The American Paradox: Spiritual Hunger in an Age of Plenty by David G. Myers. Yale Univ. Press, 414 pages, $29.95 and The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies by Robert G. Lane. Yale Univ. Press, 465 pages, $35.00
Published in The American Prospect on 11 September, 2000
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The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays by Evan Connell. Counterpoint, 470 pages, $28.00
Published in Boston Globe on 18 November, 2001
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The Baffler: A Literary and Cultural Review PO Box 378293, Chicago IL 60637 and Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy, edited by Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahy. Norton, 404 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 21 September, 2003
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The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Published in Boston Globe on 19 March, 2000
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The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling by Diana Trilling. Harcourt Brace & Co., 442 pp., $24.95.;A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald by Michael Wrezsin. Basic
Published in Dissent on 01 March, 1994
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The Blame Game: Afterthoughts of a Nader Voter by George Scialabba
Published in Boston Review on 01 April, 2003
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The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume IV: The Naked Heart by Peter Gay. Norton, 463 Pp., $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 19 November, 1995
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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation by John L. Casti. Addison-Wesley, 181 pp., $23.
Published in LA Weekly on 08 May, 1998
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The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman. Knopf, 432 pages, $30, and Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by
Published in Boston Globe on 28 March, 2004
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The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh. Little, Brown and Company, 536 pp., $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 31 October, 1999
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy. Knopf, 277 pp., $22.00.
Published in Dissent on 01 October, 2001
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The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. Knopf, $24. ; The Revolt of the Elites. By Christopher Lasch. Norton, $22.
Published in Boston Globe on 29 January, 1995
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The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy by Russell Jacoby. Basic Books, [ ] pp., $[ ].
Published in Dissent on 01 June, 1999
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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00
Published in Boston Globe on 24 January, 1995
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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 24 January, 1995
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The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick. Beacon Press, 165 pp., $20.00.
Published in Boston Review on 01 December, 1997
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The Faith: A History of Christianity by Brian Moynahan. Doubleday, 806 pages, $40.
Published in Boston Globe on 11 August, 2002
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The Fifties by David Halberstam. Villard Books, 800 pp., $27.50.
Published in Essays on 01 October, 1993
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The First Anthology: 30 Years of the New York Review of Books, 1963—1993 Edited by Robert B. Silvers, Barbara Epstein, and Rea S. Hederman. A New York Review Book, 345 pp., $27.50.
Published in The Nation on 15 November, 1995
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World by Lawrence Lessig, Random House, 352 pp., $30 and Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity by Siva Vaidhyanatha
Published in The American Prospect on 28 January, 2002
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The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order by Francis Fukuyama, The Free Press, 354 pp., $26.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 03 June, 2002
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century by Paul Krugman. Norton, 426 pages, $25.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 12 October, 2003
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity by Roy Porter. Norton, 831 pp., $35.00
Published in Boston Globe on 17 May, 1998
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The History of Reading by Alberto Manguel. Viking, 372 pp., $26.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 15 September, 1996
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The Inviolable Seamus
Published in Harvard Review on 01 April, 1996
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The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling by David Gilmour. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 351 pp., $26.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 29 September, 2002
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The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It by Charles Lindblom. Yale Univ. Press, 296 pp., $26.00.
Published in The American Prospect on 27 August, 2001
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The Memoirs of Elias Canetti, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 834 pp., $40.
Published in Boston Globe on 07 March, 1999
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Published in The American Prospect on 18 June, 2001
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The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson. HarperCollins, 847 pages, $40.00
Published in Boston Globe on 01 June, 2001
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays by Lionel Trilling, edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier. Farrar Straus Giroux, 572 pages, $35.00.
Published in The Boston Review on 01 December, 2002
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The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolutionby Michael Lind. The Free Press, 436 pp., $25.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 16 July, 1995
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The Next Deal: The Future of Public Life in the Information Age by Andrei Cherny. Basic Books, 268 pp, $24.
Published in The American Prospect on 09 April, 2001
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The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 30 January, 1993
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The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David Noble. Knopf, 304 pp., $26.
Published in Boston Globe on 05 October, 1997
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The Revolt of the Elites and the-Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch. Norton, 276 pp., $22.00.
Published in Dissent on 01 July, 1995
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The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso. Harvard University Press, 385 Pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 October, 1994
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The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: Volume II and A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald, edited by Michael Wrezsin.
Published in Washington Post on 11 November, 2001
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The Siren and Selected Writings by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun, David Gilmour, and Guido Waldman. Edited by David Gilmour. Harvill, 185 pp., $24.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 05 May, 1996
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The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout. HarperCollins, 410 pp., $29.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 02 March, 2003
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The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War by Samuel Hynes. Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 318 pp., $24.95.
Published in Boston Globe on 30 March, 1997
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson. Metropolitan Books, 389 pages, $25 and Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky. Metropolitan Books, 278
Published in Boston Globe on 25 April, 2004
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The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny by Victor Davis Hanson. Free Press, 480 pp., $30.
Published in Boston Globe on 16 January, 2000
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The Thirty Years’ Wars: Dispatches and Diversions of a Radical Journalist, 1965—1994by Andrew Kopkind. Verso, $29.95.; The Golden Age Is In Us: Journeys and Encounters, 1987—1994 by Alexander Cockburn. Verso, $24.95.
Published in The Nation on 15 November, 1995
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The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish, Harvard University Press, 328 pages, $24.95.
Published in The American Prospect on 24 April, 2000
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The Twilight of the Intellectuals: Politics and Culture in the Era of the Cold War by Hilton Kramer. Ivan R. Dee, 363 pages, $27.50.
Published in Boston Review on 07 October, 1999
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The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilization to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Knopf, 253 pp., $25.00
Published in Boston Globe on 24 January, 1999
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The Worst Policy
Published in Harvard Review on 01 October, 1994
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There’s No Such Thing As Free Speech ,.. And It’s a Good Thing, Too by Stanley Fish. Oxford University Press, 332 pp., $25.00.
Published in The Nation on 31 January, 1994
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They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne, Jr. Simon & Schuster, Cloth, 352 pp., $24.00.
Published in Los Angeles Times Book Review on 00 December, 1993
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Thoughts on a Quincentennial Lately Passed
Published in Harvard Review on 01 January, 1993
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Tolstoy’s Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse edited by Sven Birkerts. Graywolf Press, 256 pp., $16.00.
Published in Boston Review on 01 December, 1996
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Up from Progressivism
Published in Commonwealth on 01 April, 1997
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Vamps and Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia. Vintage Books, 532 pp., $15.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 01 December, 1994
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WISTFUL THINKING ABOUT THE POLITICAL WEEKLIES
Published in Agni on 01 March, 1995
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Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 18 June, 1995
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Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50.
Published in Boston Globe on 18 June, 1995
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Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass, Houghton, Mifflin, 445 pp., $25.00
Published in Boston Globe on 28 June, 1998
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Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens, Basic Books, 211 pages, $24.
Published in Washington Post on 20 October, 2002
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Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers by David Edmonds and John Eidenow. Ecco Press/HarperCollins, 340 pages, $24.00.
Published in Boston Globe on 13 January, 2002
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Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats by Brenda Maddox. HarperCollins, 474 pages, $32.
Published in Boston Globe on 28 November, 1999
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A Rake Among Radicals
Published in Los Angeles Review of Books on 06 January, 2016
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Abiding Our Question
Published in NBCC on 06 February, 2016
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Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson.
Published in The American Conservative on 01 February, 2011
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Affirming America
Published in Raritan on 01 March, 2020
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Afraid of the Dark
Published in Baffler on 01 July, 2019
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Against Everything
Published in Baffler on 01 January, 2017
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America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 23 April, 2006
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An Enemy of the State
Published in Raritan on 06 September, 2010
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Apologies to Thucydides: Understanding History as Culture and Vice Versa by Marshall Sahlins and From Athens to Auschwitz: The Uses of History by Christian Meier (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 03 April, 2005
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Arguing about War by Michael Walzer (Review)
Published in The Nation on 13 December, 2004
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Ask Uncle Ralph
Published in Baffler on 20 May, 2014
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Back to the Land?
Published in Baffler on 15 January, 2020
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Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese.
Published in Barnes & Noble Review on 14 August, 2009
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Cassandras
Published in Inference on 01 September, 2021
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Charisma: The Gift of Grace and How It Has Been Taken from Us by Philip Rieff (Review)
Published in Boston Review on 23 July, 2007
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Chomsky for Beginners (Essay)
Published in Boston Phoenix on 27 September, 2006
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Class and the Classroom
Published in Foreign Affairs on 01 February, 2015
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball and The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture by Mark C. Taylor (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 06 June, 2004
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Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq by John Dower
Published in The Nation on 11 April, 2011
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Dangers and Enemies Everywhere
Published in Democracy on 01 July, 2023
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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire by Morris Berman (Review)
Published in New Haven Review of Books on 01 July, 2007
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Decline and Fall
Published in The New Inquiry on 23 May, 2012
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Disappearing Acts
Published in Baffler on 07 April, 2014
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Do the Right Thing
Published in Barnes & Noble Review on 01 November, 2011
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Dobbs and Democracy
Published in Commonweal on 01 August, 2022
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Eric Sevareid: The Taming of the Dream
Published in North Dakota Humanities Council Review on 01 September, 2010
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Facing Orwell's Way
Published in Raritan on 15 July, 2009
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Farewell, Hitch (Essay)
Published in N+1 on 01 March, 2005
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Five Who Shook the World
Published in New York Times on 23 July, 2017
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Floats Like a Vulture
Published in The Nation on 22 May, 2014
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Folly and Glory: A Novel. The Berrybender Narratives, Book 4 by Larry McMurtry (Review)
Published in Washington Post on 09 May, 2004
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Freedom for Sale: How We Made Money and Lost Our Liberty by John Kampfner. Simon &
Published in The National (Abu Dhabi) on 15 December, 2009
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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy by Lewis Lapham and What We’ve Lost by Graydon Carter (Review)
Published in The Nation on 11 October, 2004
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Gaza: The Responsibility of Intellectuals
Published in New Statesman on 07 November, 2023
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Generalists, Specialists, and Others: An Interview with George Scialabba
Published in Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism on 15 May, 2012
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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India by Joseph Lelyveld.
Published in Barnes & Noble Review on 31 March, 2011
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Heal Thyself: Nicholas Culpeper and the Seventeenth-Century Struggle to Bring Medicine to the People by Benjamin Woolley (Review)
Published in Washington Post on 30 November, 2004
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Hitchens at Last
Published in The American Conservative on 01 December, 2011
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Honesty: A Syllabus (Essay)
Published in In Character on 01 June, 2007
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Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch
Published in Dissent on 01 January, 2011
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House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power by James Carroll (Review)
Published in Virginia Quarterly Review on 01 October, 2006
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How Do You Purge an Elite?
Published in on 01 June, 2023
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How Sweet Is It
Published in Baffler on 01 March, 2014
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How Things Hang Together
Published in Inference on 01 April, 2017
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Humankind: A Brief History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death by Timothy Taylor (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 01 August, 2004
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Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt. The Penguin Press, 237 pp, $25.95
Published in Barnes & Noble Review on 10 May, 2010
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In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 22 August, 2004
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In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek. Verso, 504 pages, $34.95.
Published in Boston Phoenix on 12 August, 2008
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In Search of Paul by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed, From Jesus to Christianity by L. Michael White, and Why the Jews Rejected Jesus by David Klinghoffer (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 27 March, 2005
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Interview with Arnis Ritups for Rigas Laiks
Published in Rigas Laiks - Latvia on 06 November, 2015
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Introduction to The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia (New York Review Books).
Published in Essays on 15 October, 2003
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Irresolvable Differences
Published in The Nation on 01 May, 2023
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Is God Happy?
Published in Commonweal on 05 August, 2013
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Justice: A Syllabus (Essay)
Published in In Character on 01 October, 2006
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Last Men and Women
Published in Commonweal on 01 April, 2021
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Last Men and Women
Published in President's Lecture - University of Montana on 12 March, 2018
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Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 1930s by Lewis Dabney and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s and 1940s by Edmund Wilson (Review)
Published in The Nation on 16 January, 2008
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Love’s Confusions by C.D.C. Reeve and Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives by Simon Goldhill (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 06 February, 2005
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Making Optimism Respectable
Published in Baffler on 01 January, 2019
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Many Worlds in One by Alex Vilenkin and God's Universe by Owen Gingerich (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 23 July, 2006
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Market Mania
Published in Commonweal on 01 November, 2012
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Mindfulness
Published in Inference on 01 October, 2016
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Network Power by David Grewal and The Power of Place by Harm de Blij (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 20 August, 2008
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Neurotic Beauty
Published in Arts Fuse on 06 October, 2015
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Nobody Here But Us Capitalists
Published in Raritan on 01 July, 2019
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. Yale University Press, 293 pages, $26
Published in Boston Globe on 18 May, 2008
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Ode on the Death of a Bookstore
Published in Poem on 15 June, 2009
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On Hitchens on Chomsky
Published in Guernica on 11 May, 2011
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On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction by Brian Boyd. Harvard
Published in Boston Globe on 24 May, 2009
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Out of the Fold: A Letter to Daniel Berrigan (Essay)
Published in Essays on 01 December, 2006
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People Who Influence Influential People ...
Published in Baffler on 01 March, 2015
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Planet of the Apes
Published in New Yorker on 20 February, 2019
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Plutocratic Vistas
Published in Los Angeles Review of Books on 28 July, 2012
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Podcast -- The New Inquiry
Published in The New Inquiry on 17 February, 2012
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Prehistoric Politics
Published in New Republic on 15 September, 2021
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Progress and Prejudice
Published in Salmagundi on 01 October, 2012
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Reading "Legitimation Crisis" in Tehran by Danny Postel (Review)
Published in Bidoun on 01 April, 2007
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Reasons and Passions
Published in Boston Review on 15 September, 2012
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Remembering Ellen Willis (Essay)
Published in The Nation on 10 November, 2006
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Resistance, Rebellion, and Writing
Published in Bookforum on 26 March, 2013
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Sartre - Selected Essays
Published in Commonweal on 17 December, 2013
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Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis by Eli Zaretsky (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 18 July, 2004
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Self-Reliance: A Syllabus (Essay)
Published in In Character on 01 April, 2007
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Should Philosophy Retire?
Published in Commonweal on 15 October, 2021
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Simply to See?
Published in New Republic on 01 October, 2018
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Slouching Toward Utopia
Published in President's Lecture - University of Montana on 12 March, 2018
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So You Want to Be a Socialist?
Published in New Republic on 01 February, 2020
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Still Enlightening After All These Years
Published in Raritan on 01 June, 2017
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Stossel's Inferno
Published in Bookforum on 01 January, 2014
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Symposium - One's Favorite Neglected Books
Published in The American Conservative on 01 October, 2009
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Symposium Contribution -- Great Unread Books
Published in The American Conservative on 01 November, 2009
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The American Way of Strategy by Michael Lind and Empire's Workshop by Greg Grandin (Review)
Published in The Nation on 27 November, 2006
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The Arch-Heretic
Published in Commonweal on 01 October, 2020
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The Assassin's Fate
Published in Baffler on 08 August, 2014
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The Cant-Hunter
Published in Commonweal on 01 April, 2020
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The Common Fate
Published in Commonweal on 14 September, 2012
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The Critic As Radical
Published in The American Conservative on 01 November, 2010
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The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing by Michael Mann and Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity by Reviel Netz (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 19 December, 2004
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The Difference It Makes
Published in Inference on 01 January, 2017
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The Emotion Machine by Marvin Minsky and Contemplative Science by Alan Wallace (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 25 February, 2007
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 22 May, 2005
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The Endlessly Examined Life
Published in Baffler on 01 November, 2014
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The Free Banquet
Published in Commonweal on 01 May, 2017
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The Free World
Published in Baffler on 15 April, 2021
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The Future of Liberalism by Alan Wolfe & A Tolerable Anarchy by Jedediah Purdy
Published in The Nation on 11 May, 2009
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The Givenness of Things
Published in Bookforum on 06 July, 2015
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The Great Debate by Yuval Levin
Published in Commonweal on 31 March, 2014
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The Higher Happiness
Published in Baffler on 15 October, 2016
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The Impresario
Published in The Nation on 06 June, 2011
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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer (Review)
Published in Barnes & Noble Review on 10 March, 2009
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The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces by Frank Wilczek.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 November, 2008
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The Predictioneer's Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future by Bruce
Published in Boston Globe on 29 November, 2009
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The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion by Soren Kierkegaard. Introduction by Walter
Published in Bookforum on 01 December, 2010
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The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle. Yale Univ.
Published in Boston Globe on 22 March, 2009
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The Red Flag: A History of Communism by David Priestland. Grove Books, 676 pages, $30.
Published in The National (Abu Dhabi) on 01 December, 2009
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The Restless Cosmopolitan
Published in on 05 April, 2020
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The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal, edited by Jay Parini.
Published in The Nation on 27 October, 2008
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The Short American Century
Published in Dissent on 01 July, 2012
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The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters by Diane Coyle and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics by Riane Eisler (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 22 April, 2007
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The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity (Review)
Published in The Progressive on 01 May, 2008
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The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker.
Published in Boston Globe on 23 September, 2007
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The Uses of Pessimism and the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton. Atlantic Books, 232 pp, £15.99
Published in The National (Abu Dhabi) on 24 June, 2010
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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson (Review)
Published in Virginia Quarterly Review on 01 January, 2007
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew Crawford.
Published in Boston Review on 24 June, 2015
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman (Review)
Published in The Nation on 13 June, 2005
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The Wreck of Western Culture: Humanism Revisited by John Carroll (Review)
Published in Bookforum on 01 February, 2009
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1919 by Adam Hochschild.
Published in Arts Fuse on 08 July, 2011
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To the Campus Left, with Love
Published in Salmagundi on 01 January, 2018
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Tocqueville's Discovery of America by Leo Damrosch. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 277 pp, $27.
Published in Boston Globe on 18 April, 2010
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What Is American Foreign Policy About?
Published in Platypus Forum on 13 November, 2009
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What Is Religion Good For?
Published in Inference on 20 March, 2016
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What Is to Be Done? (Review)
Published in The Nation on 29 January, 2007
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What Were We Thinking?
Published in Commonweal on 01 January, 2023
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What's Good?
Published in Harvard Bioethics Journal on 01 July, 2019
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What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank (Review)
Published in The Nation on 14 June, 2004
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Where Has Our Virtue Gone?
Published in The Nation on 25 May, 2015
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Which Scandal?
Published in Bookforum on 02 September, 2011
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Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction, and Economics by Paul Ormerod and Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays by Thomas Schelling (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 23 April, 2006
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Why Not Socialism? by G. A. Cohen. Princeton University Press, 83 pp., $14.95
Published in Commonweal on 12 March, 2010
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Why Read? by Mark Edmundson and Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life by Stanley Cavell (Review)
Published in Boston Globe on 03 October, 2004
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Would He or Wouldn't He?
Published in N+1 on 17 December, 2011
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You Say You Want a Revolution: Jonathan Israel on the Enlightenment
Published in Arts Fuse on 06 March, 2012
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