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TEA WITH MUSSOLINI
I'd like to reflect on a couple of passages from Mark Lilla's The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. Modernization would...
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LASCHED
I had glancing, and wounding, encounters with Christopher Lasch in the early 'eighties. He was a close friend of an...
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The Three Solipsisms of Tony Judt
In his short memoir, The Memory Chalet, dictated at the end of his life as he lay immobilized from motor...
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MARK MADOFF'S POSTMODERN SUICIDE
Emile Durkheim, the great French sociologist, tells us that there are four kinds of suicide. None of the four really...
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PARTY ON
Contemporary Americans, wrote the philosopher Richard Rorty, are "rich fat [and] tired;" they live in an "Alexandrian" culture. Craig Brandon's...
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Department of Complaints
Last June, Inside Higher Education noted a legal case against the University of Calgary, filed by two students there who...
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IF YOU BLINKED, YOU MISSED IT
Last week was National Suicide Prevention Week. You missed it. We know so little about suicide that people worry awareness...
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LEMONIZING THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Donald Light, currently Lorry Lokey Visiting Professor of Human Biology at Stanford, has presented a paper at this year's American...