Russell Jacoby

Russell Jacoby, a professor of history at UCLA, is the author of The Last Intellectuals, Dialectic of Defeat and other works. His new book, Picture Imperfect: Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age, has just been published by Columbia University Press.

Infantile Liberalism Infantile Liberalism

"I encourage you all to go shopping more," advised President Bush at a press conference last winter. Shop and prime the pump, goes the idea. Spring for a plasma television set an...

May 3, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

Letters Letters

HELEN THOMAS, HELEN THOMAS

Apr 19, 2006 / Letters / Our Readers, Russell Jacoby, and Helen Thomas

Brother From Another Planet Brother From Another Planet

If you missed the 1995 CUNY "Question of Identity" conference, the issue of October magazine devoted to it, the "remarkable" essay on the same subject in Diacritics or--even wo...

Mar 23, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

Letters Letters

THE MAORI STILL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE Somerville, Mass.

Nov 17, 2005 / Letters / Arthur C. Danto, Our Readers, Anatol Lieven, and Russell Jacoby

Game Theory Game Theory

What does today's culture of television and video games say about society?

Jun 9, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

The New PC The New PC

They claim liberals are victimizing them.

Mar 16, 2005 / Feature / Russell Jacoby

Letters Letters

ABOLITION, A CLASS-FREE ENDEAVOR San Francisco

Mar 3, 2005 / Letters / Our Readers, Daniel Lazare, and Russell Jacoby

Men in Dark Times Men in Dark Times

"I am very happy to see so many flowers here and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who...

Jan 20, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

The War That Never Was The War That Never Was

As war threatened Europe in the 1930s, a physicist turned to a psychiatrist to help understand the impending violence.

Dec 2, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Russell Jacoby

Letters Letters

'TENDENTIOUS' ON TOCQUEVILLE Port Jefferson, NY

May 27, 2004 / Letters / Our Readers, Daniel Lazare, and Russell Jacoby

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