Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Jonathan Franzen

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Farther Away We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of master...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Daniel Yergin

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Joseph Stanislaw The Commanding Heights The consequence of all this was an economic system that had three self-defeating characteristics...
Friday, June 03, 2011

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Lectures on Aesthetics The peculiar mode to which artistic production and works of art belong no longer satisfies our supreme need. We are a...
Sunday, May 22, 2011

Peter Turchin

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War And Peace And War A shoe maker in the city who spends hours every day hunched over his work will make a lousy warrior—weak, clumsy, and...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Ernest Renan

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Marcus Aurelius Far from establishing an effective equality among the citizens, the Roman Empire, flinging wide the portals of the commonwea...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

John Updike

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Rabbit At Rest 'Charlie, I have a problem.' 'That's news?' 'A couple of 'em, actually. For one, I ought to do so...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

George Stigler

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The Economist as Preacher and Other Essays History is written by and for the educated classes. We know more about the thoughts and actions...
Thursday, May 05, 2011

Max Weber

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Political Writings The Sermon on the Mount, by which we mean the absolute ethics of the Gospel, is something far more serious than those w...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Frederick Beiser

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The Romantic Imperative They argued that while philosophy cannot stimulate action nor religion convince reason, art has the power to inspire...
Monday, May 02, 2011

Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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The Ancient City The word country, among the ancients, signified the land of the fathers, terra patria—fatherland. The fatherland of every m...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Theodore White

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In Search of History At some point in the conversation she had said to me, 'Caroline asked me what kind of prayer should I say? And I ...
Friday, April 29, 2011

Benjamin Constant

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Political Writings First ask yourselves, Gentlemen, what an Englishman, a French-man, and a citizen of the United States of America understa...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

John Mueller

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Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery in Lake Wobegon, a Minnesota town invented by hu...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Erich Heller

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In The Age Of Prose He became a tram conductor in Chicago and, unable to learn the names of streets, used to call out the wrong stops and lo...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Tyler Cowen

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Creative Destruction Although Gandhi complained that British imports were damaging the Indian textile industry, Indian producers had practic...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Todd Gitlin

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The Sixties By conservative estimate, between September 1969 and May 1970 there were some two hundred fifty major bombings and attempts link...
Sunday, April 10, 2011

Martin Wolf

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Why Globalization Works If we regard choices as valuable in their own right, then there are few choices more important to people than thos...
Friday, April 08, 2011

Thomas Langston

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Ideologues and Presidents Differences among the planners centered about the relative weight to be given to persuasive as opposed to coerci...
Thursday, April 07, 2011

James Bryce

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A Survey of Our Era The world is becoming one in an altogether new sense. More than four centuries ago the discovery of America marked the ...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Soren Kierkegaard

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Concluding Unscientific Postscript I had been a student for a half-score of years. Although never lazy, all my activity was nevertheless onl...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Jack Greene

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Pursuits of Happiness By the 1730s and 1740s in older colonies and by the 1740s and 1750s in the newer ones, both provincial and, except in...