Society

Social Science and the Public Interest

Vital Signs

Dan Chiasson

Trans-Action and American Conservatism: The Gouldner Years

Edward S. Shapiro

Ralph Ellison, Irving Howe and the Imagined Civil Rights Movement

Peter Kuryla

Past and Present: Some Reflections on American-Jewish Intellectuals

Edward Alexander

Less “Catholic,” More “catholic”? American Catholic Universities Since Vatican II

John Rodden

Two Critics of the Ideological “Lie”: Raymond Aron’s Encounter With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Daniel J. Mahoney

Hannah Arendt and American Loneliness

Richard H. King

Ray Bradbury and the Assault on Free Thought

Daphne Patai

Relativists and Absolutists: Grand Strategies in a World of Fractured Norms

Irving Louis Horowitz

An Inconvenient Democracy: Knowledge and Climate Change

Nico Stehr

Philip Rieff and Fellow Teachers

Jonathan B. Imber

Continuity in Change: Leftwing Coalitions in Uruguay and Chile

Laura Ymayo Tartakoff

The King James Bible at 401

Lenn Goodman

Society’s Books of Note

Churchill Reconsidered

John P. Rossi

Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Margery Lucas

Andrew Delbanco, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be

Geoffrey M. Vaughan

Sarah Bakewell. How to Live: Or, a Life of Montaigne

David Lewis Schaefer

Peter Collier, Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick

Will Morrisey