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Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America.
By Russsell Jacoby. Doubleday, 235 pp., $22.95
recorded on 21 September 2005 Posted by george at
11:08 AM
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey Sachs. The Penguin Press, 396 pages, $27.95.
recorded on 22 May 2005 Posted by george at
12:02 PM
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.
recorded on 3 April 2005 Posted by george at
04:21 PM
In Search of Paul
by John Dominic Crossan and Jonathan L. Reed.
From Jesus to Christianity
by L. Michael White.
Why the Jews Rejected Jesus
by David Klinghoffer.
recorded on 27 March 2005 Posted by george at
03:26 PM
Love’s Confusions
by C.D.C. Reeve. Harvard University Press, 224 pages, $24.95, and
Love, Sex & Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives
by Simon Goldhill, University of Chicago Press, 335 pages, $27.50.
recorded on 6 February 2005 Posted by george at
01:41 PM
The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
by Michael Mann. Cambridge University Press, 580 pages, $24.95.
Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity
by Reviel Netz. Wesleyan University Press, 267 pages, $24.95.
recorded on 19 December 2004 Posted by george at
09:29 PM
Why Read?
by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury Press, 160 pages, $21.95 and
Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
by Stanley Cavell.
recorded on 3 October 2004 Posted by george at
04:38 PM
Review of
In Defense of Globalization
by Jagdish Bhagwati. Oxford University Press, 308 pp., $28.
recorded on 22 August 2004 Posted by george at
01:13 PM
Review of
Humankind: A Brief History
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Oxford University Press and
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death
by Timothy Taylor. Beacon Press, 353
recorded on 1 August 2004 Posted by george at
01:35 PM
Review of
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis
by Eli Zaretsky, Knopf, 429 pp., $30.
recorded on 18 July 2004 Posted by george at
01:46 PM
Review of
Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
by Philip Ball, Farrar, Straus and
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture
by Mark C. Taylor.
recorded on 6 June 2004 Posted by george at
01:39 PM
Review of
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
recorded on 25 April 2004 Posted by george at
10:50 PM
Review of
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
recorded on 4 April 2004 Posted by george at
02:00 PM
Review of
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
recorded on 28 March 2004 Posted by george at
02:36 PM
Review of
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,
recorded on 1 February 2004 Posted by george at
02:31 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 23 November 2003 Posted by george at
03:15 PM
Review of
The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul Krugman. Norton, 426 pages, $25.95.
recorded on 12 October 2003 Posted by george at
03:46 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 21 September 2003 Posted by george at
03:04 PM
Review of
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
by Elaine Pagels and
A Serious Way of Wondering: The Ethics of Jesus Imagined
by Reynolds Price.
recorded on 24 August 2003 Posted by george at
01:59 PM
Review of
Respect in a World of Inequality
by Richard Sennett.
recorded on 13 July 2003 Posted by george at
03:44 PM
Review of
Emerson
by Lawrence Buell
recorded on 1 June 2003 Posted by george at
05:41 PM
Review of
The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
by Terry Teachout. HarperCollins, 410 pp., $29.95.
recorded on 2 March 2003 Posted by george at
01:35 PM
Review of
Consciousness and the Novel: Connected Essays
by David Lodge. Harvard University Press, 320 pages, $24.95.
recorded on 5 January 2003 Posted by george at
01:23 PM
Review of
One Man’s Bible
by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 450 pages, $26.95.
recorded on 17 November 2002 Posted by george at
01:54 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 29 September 2002 Posted by george at
01:16 PM
Review of
Flaubert: A Life
by Geoffrey Wall.
recorded on 1 September 2002 Posted by george at
02:20 PM
Review of
The Faith: A History of Christianity
by Brian Moynahan. Doubleday, 806 pages, $40.
recorded on 11 August 2002 Posted by george at
02:45 PM
Review of
Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph Stiglitz. Norton, 282 pp., $24.95.
recorded on 28 July 2002 Posted by george at
02:39 PM
Review of
The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order
by Francis Fukuyama, The Free Press, 354 pp., $26.00.
recorded on 3 June 2002 Posted by george at
05:49 PM
Review of Nature Writing: The Tradition in English, edited by Robert Finch and John Elder. Norton, 1152 pages, $39.95
recorded on 2 May 2002 Posted by george at
02:47 PM
Review of A Jacques Barzun Reader, edited by Michael Murray, HarperCollins, 615 pages, $29.95.
recorded on 31 March 2002 Posted by george at
04:35 PM
Review of
John Maynard Keynes: A Biography, vol. 3: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946
by Robert Skidelsky. Viking, 580 pp., $34.95.
recorded on 24 February 2002 Posted by george at
01:09 PM
Review of
In Siberia
by Colin Thubron. HarperCollins, 286 pages, $26.
recorded on 20 February 2002 Posted by george at
02:50 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 13 January 2002 Posted by george at
01:58 PM
Review of
The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays
by Evan Connell. Counterpoint, 470 pages, $28.00
recorded on 18 November 2001 Posted by george at
02:46 PM
Review of
The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
by Peter Watson. HarperCollins, 847 pages, $40.00
recorded on 1 June 2001 Posted by george at
01:46 PM
Review of
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
by Peter Hessler. HarperCollins, 402 pp., $26.00.
recorded on 22 April 2001 Posted by george at
02:17 PM
Review of
All the Names
by José Saramago, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Harcourt, 238 pages, $24.
recorded on 11 February 2001 Posted by george at
03:37 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 14 January 2001 Posted by george at
02:23 PM
Review of
Soul Mountain
by Gao Xingjian. HarperCollins, 510 pages, $27.00.
recorded on 31 December 2000 Posted by george at
02:21 PM
Review of
Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
by Jonathan Glover. Yale University Press, 464 pages, $29.95.
recorded on 22 October 2000 Posted by george at
02:04 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 1 October 2000 Posted by george at
02:14 PM
Review of
Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon
by Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock. Norton, 370 pages, $29.95.
recorded on 30 July 2000 Posted by george at
01:55 PM
Review of
John Ruskin: The Later Years
by Tim Hilton. Yale University Press, 656 pages, $35.
recorded on 16 July 2000 Posted by george at
02:21 PM
Review of
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
by Jacques Barzun
recorded on 11 June 2000 Posted by george at
03:43 PM
Review of
In Babylon
by Marcel Moring, translated from the Dutch by Stacey Knecht. William Morrow, 417 pages, $24.
recorded on 9 April 2000 Posted by george at
01:38 PM
Review of
The Battle for God
by Karen Armstrong
recorded on 19 March 2000 Posted by george at
03:34 PM
Review of
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
by David Cesarani. Free Press, 646 pp., $30.00.
recorded on 23 January 2000 Posted by george at
01:19 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 16 January 2000 Posted by george at
02:09 PM
Review of
In Nevada: The Land, the People, God, and Chance
by David Thomson. Knopf, 330 pp. $27.50.
recorded on 26 December 1999 Posted by george at
01:51 PM
Review of
Yeats’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats
by Brenda Maddox. HarperCollins, 474 pages, $32.
recorded on 28 November 1999 Posted by george at
02:08 PM
Review of
The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
. Little, Brown and Company, 536 pp., $29.95.
recorded on 31 October 1999 Posted by george at
01:54 PM
Review of
More Matter: Essays and Criticism
by John Updike. Knopf, 900 pages, $35.00.
recorded on 3 October 1999 Posted by george at
03:06 PM
Review of
T. S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
by Lyndall Gordon. Norton, 721 pp., $35
recorded on 22 August 1999 Posted by george at
02:54 PM
Review of
Jonathan Swift: A Portrait
by Victoria Glendinning. Henry Holt, 324 pp., $35.00
recorded on 13 June 1999 Posted by george at
02:42 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 30 May 1999 Posted by george at
03:00 PM
Review of
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame
by Benita Eisler, Knopf, 840 pp., $35.00.
recorded on 9 May 1999 Posted by george at
03:13 PM
Review of
The Memoirs of Elias Canetti
, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 834 pp., $40.
recorded on 7 March 1999 Posted by george at
02:55 PM
Review of
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
recorded on 24 January 1999 Posted by george at
01:39 PM
Review of
Cities in Civilization
by Sir Peter Hall. Pantheon, 1169 pp., $40
recorded on 13 December 1998 Posted by george at
01:23 PM
Review of
The American Century
by Harold Evans with Gail Buckland and Kevin Baker, Knopf, 710 pages, $50.
recorded on 1 November 1998 Posted by george at
01:26 PM
Review of
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America’s Future
by Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, 393 pp., $27.50.
recorded on 27 September 1998 Posted by george at
02:29 PM
Review of
Marking the Sparrow’s Fall: Wallace Stegner’s American West
, edited by Page Stegner. Henry Holt, 359 pp., $25.00.
recorded on 23 August 1998 Posted by george at
02:26 PM
Review of
Where the Sea Used to Be
by Rick Bass, Houghton, Mifflin, 445 pp., $25.00
recorded on 28 June 1998 Posted by george at
01:45 PM
Review of
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
by Roy Porter. Norton, 831 pp., $35.00
recorded on 17 May 1998 Posted by george at
03:31 PM
Review of
Genuine Reality: A Life of William James
by Linda Simon. Harcourt Brace, 466 pp., $35.00.
recorded on 15 March 1998 Posted by george at
02:02 PM
Review of
Keats
by Andrew Motion. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 636 pp., $35.00.
recorded on 8 February 1998 Posted by george at
01:05 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 9 November 1997 Posted by george at
02:06 PM
Review of
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention
by David Noble. Knopf, 304 pp., $26.
recorded on 5 October 1997 Posted by george at
09:08 PM
Review of
Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest
by Alex Shoumatoff. Knopf, 516 pp., $30.
recorded on 24 August 1997 Posted by george at
08:57 PM
Review of
Children of Darkness and Light
by Nicholas Mosley. Dalkey Archive Press, 241 pp., $13.95.
recorded on 20 July 1997 Posted by george at
01:47 PM
Review of
George Eliot: A Life
by Rosemary Ashton. Allen Lane/Penguin, 465 pp., $32.95.
recorded on 1 June 1997 Posted by george at
08:43 PM
Review of
The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War
by Samuel Hynes. Allen Lane/The Penguin Press, 318 pp., $24.95.
recorded on 30 March 1997 Posted by george at
09:11 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 18 February 1997 Posted by george at
08:47 PM
Review of
My Other Life
by Paul Theroux. Houghton Mifflin, 456 pp.
recorded on 15 December 1996 Posted by george at
11:24 AM
Review of
Rebecca West: A Life
by Carl Rollyson. Scribner, 511 pp., $35.00
recorded on 17 November 1996 Posted by george at
11:35 AM
Review of
The History of Reading
by Alberto Manguel. Viking, 372 pp., $26.95.
recorded on 15 September 1996 Posted by george at
11:55 AM
Review of
Max Weber: Politics and the Spirit of Tragedy
by John Patrick Diggins. Basic Books, 334 pp., $35.
recorded on 18 August 1996 Posted by george at
11:12 AM
Review of
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
by Michael J. Sandel. Harvard University Press, 417 pp., $24.95.
recorded on 3 June 1996 Posted by george at
10:54 AM
Review of
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.
recorded on 5 May 1996 Posted by george at
12:02 PM
Review of
H.G.: The History of Mr. Wells
by Michael Foot. Counterpoint, 344 pp., $29.00.
recorded on 7 January 1996 Posted by george at
11:04 AM
Review of
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
by Irving Kristol. The Free Press, 493 pp., $25.00.
recorded on 17 December 1995 Posted by george at
11:27 AM
Review of
The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud. Volume IV: The Naked Heart by Peter Gay.
Norton, 463 Pp., $29.95.
recorded on 19 November 1995 Posted by george at
11:52 AM
Review of
A Requiem for Karl Marx
by Frank Manuel. Harvard University Press, 255 pp., $24.95.
recorded on 3 September 1995 Posted by george at
10:03 AM
Review of
The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution
by Michael Lind. The Free Press, 436 pp., $25.00.
recorded on 16 July 1995 Posted by george at
11:56 AM
Review of
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls
by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50.
recorded on 18 June 1995 Posted by george at
07:36 PM
Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls
by Denis Donoghue. Knopf, 364 pp., $27.50.
recorded on 18 June 1995 Posted by george at
03:19 PM
God: A Biography.
By Jack Miles. Knopf 446 pp. $27.50.
recorded on 9 April 1995 Posted by george at
10:00 PM
Penchants and Places: Essays and Criticism
. By Brad Leithauser. Knopf, 291pp., $25.
recorded on 21 February 1995 Posted by george at
11:20 AM
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.
recorded on 29 January 1995 Posted by george at
02:09 PM
Review of
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00
recorded on 24 January 1995 Posted by george at
06:57 PM
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation
by Tom Engelhardt. Basic Books, 320 pp., $25.00.
recorded on 24 January 1995 Posted by george at
02:39 PM
Review of
Just Curious: Essays
by Cullen Murphy. Houghton Mifflin, 248 pp., $21.95.
recorded on 8 January 1995 Posted by george at
08:53 PM
Review of
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.
recorded on 22 December 1994 Posted by george at
08:38 PM
Review of
Vamps and Tramps: New Essays
by Camille Paglia. Vintage Books, 532 pp., $15.00.
recorded on 1 December 1994 Posted by george at
09:17 PM
Review of
Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930s
by Hope Hale Davis. Steerforth Press, 337 pp., $24.00
recorded on 20 November 1994 Posted by george at
08:50 PM
Review of
The Ruin of Kasch
by Roberto Calasso. Harvard University Press, 385 Pp., $24.95.
recorded on 23 October 1994 Posted by george at
11:59 AM
In Defense of Elitism.
By William A. Henry III. Doubleday, 212 pages. $20.
recorded on 29 September 1994 Posted by george at
11:34 AM
Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America’s Future.
By Richard Bernstein. Knopf, 367 pages $25.00.
recorded on 6 September 1994 Posted by george at
11:36 AM
Review of
The Passion of Michel Foucault
by James Miller. Simon & Schuster, 491 pages, $27.50.
recorded on 30 January 1993 Posted by george at
11:04 AM
Antipolitics: An Essay By George Konrad
. Translated by Richard E. Allen. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 243 pp. $12.95.
recorded on 17 June 1984 Posted by george at
12:15 PM
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