Jackson Lears

Jackson Lears teaches American history at Rutgers University. He is the editor of Raritan: A Quarterly Review and the author, most recently, of Rebirth of a Nation.

Articles

Exchange

Republic or empire?

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Pariahs' Progress: On Isolationism (America as Empire, Foreign Policy, Globalization, History, Books and the Arts)

For Christopher McKnight Nichols, isolationists were cultural cosmopolitans who distrusted the impact of empire.

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Letters

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Same Old New Atheism: On Sam Harris (Religion, Books and the Arts)

Scientists, Sam Harris writes, are the saints of circumspection. If that’s true, then with his writing on religion and morality Harris breaks the mold.

Jackson Lears

The Thought Experimenter (Biography, Philosophy, Politics)

A new biography of William James portrays a man who made a brilliant career of asking tough questions.

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Keeping It Real (Cultural Criticism and Analysis, Philosophy)

In Songs of Experience, Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.

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