The official website of Robert A. Caro isn’t shy about quoting the Sunday Times (UK), which calls him “the greatest political biographer of the modern era.”  Even as readers await Read more

I won’t claim it’s a great book, but Saul Bellow’s debut novel, Dangling Man (1944), made quite an impression when I first read it over forty years ago.  Although Bellow Read more

The History of Academic DepartmentsAs part of an effort to bring attention to the history of academic departments and to develop the subject as a distinct area of historical inquiry, Read more

For most of its collective existence, the study of the right in the US has suffered from an anxious, constricted set of categories and epistemological assumptions about who exactly the Read more

In the summer of 1981, the New Left Review published a special issue titled, “The Anatomy of Reaganism.” Featuring the writings of prominent sociologists and political theorists including Alan Wolfe Read more

I always get a bit queasy over the catchphrase “the American Dream.”  I cannot count the number of times I’ve heard (or read) variations on: “All he wants is his Read more