Theodore Roszak
Theodore Roszak The intellectual world in the late 1960s and early 1970s was vibrantly polemic. While their students were taking to the streets in [...]
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09, 2022
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09, 2022
Robert Putnam
Robert Putnam In case you haven’t noticed, I am a sucker for ‘big picture’ books (not big ‘picture books’, though I like them, too!). [...]
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09, 2022
George Orwell
George Orwell What can be said in four pages about one of the more important writers of the 20th Century? So much has been [...]
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08, 2022
Michael Novak
Michael Novak There I was, quietly eating my vegetable soup listening to ABC Classical radio when the next item came on: it was Ralph [...]
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07, 2022
Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch Rereading Christopher Lasch highlights my persistent dilemma: it seems the more I read, the less I learn. I’m not talking about fiction. [...]
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07, 2022
Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin It’s easy to get impatient with Joel Kotkin as he hops from one collection of views about the future of society to [...]
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06, 2022
Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs I often describe myself as a wanderer. I have lived in twenty homes, two with my parents in my childhood, and all [...]
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06, 2022
Here and There – Denmark
Here and There – Denmark Louisiana is quintessentially Danish. I know some people go on about the Mermaid on the Rock in Copenhagen Harbour, [...]
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06, 2022
Susan Isaacs
Susan Isaacs Some writers have the knack of opening a novel in such a way I can’t forget. One example is Jane Austen at [...]
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05, 2022
Max Holland
Max Holland If there’s a category of books that many people find boring, those on the management of manufacturing would rate among the worst, [...]