“When I started writing this review, I resolved to avoid the mawkish, almost elegiac tone that often seeps into essays about Scialabba. As you can see, I’ve failed.”
Brad DeLong’s expansive economic history is organized around a question: Why, despite constant innovation, haven’t we solved our deepest economic problems?
In Lance Morrow’s new book, the veteran ‘Time’ essayist drops names, complains about boomers, and offers an apologia for the journalism of the “American Century.”
Critics have described Cormac McCarthy as a writer beyond good and evil. But beneath the neuter austerity of McCarthy’s prose, a keen moral imagination is at work.
The writing of Wilfrid Sheed offers a rare kind of euphoria: a sense that he is determined to give the reader as much amusement as he had writing the piece.
Men in the industrialized world seem to have lost their groove. We need a new vision of masculinity adequate to our current social and economic circumstances.
Those who would follow him, Jesus tells us, must love their enemies. Those words issue a challenge for all Americans interested in redeeming democracy’s promise.
Beverly Gage's biography of J. Edgar Hoover challenges the traditional historiographical perception of Hoover's role in America's "long national nightmare."
Christ was not worshiped for the manner of his death but because he was raised from the dead. Any history of the Christian martyrs must understand that fact.
A new history of international financial institutions raises the question: What balance can be found between sovereignty and international economic cooperation?
