Occupation: Historian Birth: 1956
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar ev….
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped in….
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will need someth….
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for ….
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant about….