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Articles Written by: ALAN WOLFE
C.Wright Mills published his sociological trilogy during the 1950s: White Collar in 1951, The Power Elite in 1956, The Sociological Imagination in 1959. Those were years of Republican ascendancy, and while the president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, was a ...
President George W. Bush meets with Sen. John McCain at the White House Rose Garden in Washington, March 5, 2008.
Before we get carried away with enthusiasm about all this, though, we should keep two things in mind. One is that we are so quick to ...
From ALAN WOLFE, Salon, 17 Sep 2008
When I first began hearing about what Bruno S. Frey, professor of economics at the University of Zurich, calls the "revolution" in his discipline, my reaction was one of delight. As far as I was concerned, it could not happen fast enough. Neoclassical ...
Who gets the final say? This simple question is at the heart of religion, politics, and psychology. If I am a believer, God's decisions are authoritative: If he says that I shall not kill, I am obligated to follow his commands, fallen into sin though I ...
From ALAN WOLFE, Slate, 9 Jun 2008
It did not receive the press attention it should have, but on May 7, 2008 a group of leading thinkers and activists issued An Evangelical Manifesto making public a number of trends brewing among conservative Protestants for some time. Those trends have ...
The notion of a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton "unity ticket" has been floated quite a bit the last few days. But, seriously, is the idea any good? We asked a few friends of the magazine to weigh in.
David A. Bell, professor of history at Johns Hopkins ...
From DAVID A. BELL, MICHAEL TOMASKY, MARK SCHMITT, ALAN WOLFE, AND ED KILGORE, The New Republic, 9 May 2008
Oberlin College's first black student, William Hannibal Thomas, became an advocate for racial equality in the last decades of the 19th century, only to suddenly shift gears and write a book, much praised by Southern racists, arguing that "the negro ...
From ALAN WOLFE, Slate, 20 Jan 2008
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In August, Washington watchers were titillated by a particularly fascinating insider account of the Bush White House: Matthew Scully, one former speechwriter, accused another, Michael Gerson, of egocentric careerism. It is not usually considered sinful ...
In August, Washington watchers were titillated by a particularly fascinating insider account of the Bush White House: Matthew Scully, one former speechwriter, accused another, Michael Gerson, of egocentric careerism. It is not usually considered sinful ...