Each spring, I have to teach an introductory, interdisciplinary social science course with the banal title, "Reading and Writing in the Social Sciences." In years past, we've spent most of our time reading a selection of journal articles from the various disciplines in my program...
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I finally picked up my copy of Rick Perlstein's new book, which I've been looking forward to for a while. I was also happy to see it get the front-page.
The earliest known ancestor of House Habsburg is a figure known as Guntram the Rich, who lived in 10th century Germany. Guntram's grandson, Radbot, built Habsburg Castle in what is.
Granting that it's somewhat better than the first one, can someone explain to me how Lee Siegel's sure to be widely unread pensees about how it's worse than the gulag when people make fun of you on the internets just because you create sockpuppets to...
As I've said before, nothing signals a Must To Avoid more than a positive book review that describes an unreadable book. Such is the case with Robert Dallek's review of.
Hmm, Can West has taken over the New Republic--but, alas, Marty Peretz is keeping his stake. Apparently they'll be moving to a bi-weekly, twice-the-length format (if this means more space.
Well, if your book review must give space to something written by Joe Eszterhas, Joe Queenan is definitely the man for the job. Tannehaus has his faults, but I'm happy he's at least letting some reviewers unleash snark when it's warranted.
You may notice a couple of small changes in LGM. I've added a few rotating picture files in the left sidebar, and moved 3.0 Blogads to the top of the.
I've been reviewing our archives in an effort to collect our Nader posts and book reviews. This is no mean task; you would not believe how many of our posts.
Soon, The New Republic will collapse in on itself, smothered by its own sense of self-importance. We need to organize a rescue operation to get the book review section out of there and into a safer, less ridiculous location. No one should have to wade...
I'm tickled that the New York Times Book Review assessment of the five best novels of the last twenty-five years aligns so closely with my own preferences. Here's the top.
My review of the revised edition of Mark Tushnet's The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education in the Law and Politics Book Review is now online. (Well, it beats "my.