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Why are Yale and other top universities teaching a Grand Strategy seminar if the conditions that seemed to call for grand strategizing no longer exist?

Intent on blaming the cold war simply on Soviet perfidy, John Lewis Gaddis does a disservice to the subject of his biography—and to his readers.
 

The Stranger's Child traces the vanishing of same-sex love through suppression and then, paradoxically, acceptance and openness.

Dwight Macdonald’s panic about Midcult now seems less prescient than misplaced.

The GOP declares Keynesianism dead, but it hasn’t really been tried. The great economist would have us do much more than “prime the pump” to pull the country out of this morass.

Christopher Lasch and his quest for the moral resources of the next New Deal.
 

Janet Malcolm can be brutal in her judgments, but it is the casual brutality of keen observation.

As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal.

Robert Duncan saw in H.D.'s poetry “The story of survival, the evolution of forms in which live survives.”

With a sharp eye for cultural patterns and a keen feel for the shape of a story, Claude Lévi-Strauss was a poet in the laboratory of anthropology.