This provocative book chronicles the disappearance of the "public intellectual" in America. For over thirty years, the cultural landscape has been dominated by the generation of Irving Howe, Daniel Be
We are facing the end of politics altogether, Russell Jacoby argues in The End of Utopia. Political contestation is premised on people’s capacity for offering competing visions of the future, but in a
A critical account of race relations over the past thirty years in America records the voices of a host of ordinary citizens as they contend with the stubborn divisions between white and black and str
Twenty-four experts on the subject of immigration explore the latest wave of newcomers to American shores, comparing them to immigrants of old and wondering if they will assimilate as successfully as
