This Seeming Brow of Justice
Samuel Moyn:In their discussions of justice, Michael Sandel and Amartya Sen endorse communal good but slight collective endeavor.
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Michael Sandel teaching "Justice"JUSTIN IDE/HARVARD NEWS OFFICE
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Across the Great Divide
Akiva Gottlieb:Against the background of the surge, David Finkel twists the concept of wartime good into a cosmic joke.
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Missed Chances
Jochen Hellbeck:Stephen F. Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives surveys a political landscape of reform, struggle and reconciliation.
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The Misunderstood Robber Baron
Steve Fraser : Biography
T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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Evicted From His Own Head
Elaine Blair : Fiction
In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.
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Gladwell for Dummies
Maureen Tkacik : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Malcolm Gladwell's success as a brand-name thinker rests on the assumption that the unexamined life is the only sort his readers could be living.
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At Least, At Most
Charles Taylor : Fiction
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
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Survivors
Stuart Klawans : Film Reviews
Lee Daniels's Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, Oren Moverman's The Messenger, Alexander Sokurov's The Sun
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The End of the Story?
Lars T. Lih : History
Archie Brown's account of the high politics of communism's collapse is Kremlinology without the guesswork.
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Empire Falls
Ronald Grigor Suny : History
The story of communism's rise and fall in Eastern Europe is a tale of two revolutions.
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Linguistic Currency
Ange Mlinko : Lingo
In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
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Back Talk: Amy Bach
Christine Smallwood : The Courts
A conversation with the author of Ordinary Injustice about why the right to trial is no protection against a shoddy legal system.
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End-of-Self Help
Alexander Provan : Philosophy
Is the task of philosophy "to learn how to die," or to teach that there is no such thing as a good death?
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A City Unbottled
Joy Connolly : History
In The Fires of Vesuvius, Mary Beard unearths the seedier realities of the Roman social and political experience.
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The First Counter-revolutionary
Corey Robin : Philosophy
Thomas Hobbes sensed the revolutionary impulses of early modern Europe and transformed them into a defense of the most hidebound form of rule.
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Linguistic Currency
Ange Mlinko: In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
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Drunk and Disorderly
Phoebe Connelly: Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
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To Sleep, Perchance to 'Sleep and Think'
Ange Mlinko: Conlangs often succeed only in stripping language of its surprise.
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Back Talk: Amy Bach
Christine Smallwood: A conversation with the author of Ordinary Injustice about why the right to trial is no protection against a shoddy legal system.
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Back Talk: E.L. Doctorow
Christine Smallwood: A conversation with the author of Homer and Langley about opting out.
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Back Talk: Jarvis Cocker
Christine Smallwood: A conversation with the former frontman of Pulp about the sound of music in the digital era.
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