Articles of Note

Welcome to academe’s extinction event. What's that you smell? A noxious combination of failure, whiskey, and professional collapse... more »

New Books

When political failure leads to intellectual success. “Losers,” said Eric Hobsbawm, “make the best historians.” He was an embodiment of that principle... more »

Essays & Opinions

The cultural contradictions of Daniel Bell. He never could quite reconcile the Jewish conservative and the Yiddish radical within him... more »