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Jackson Lears
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Jackson Lears is editor of Raritan , and is writing a history of animal spirits in American economic and cultural life.
Democracy floats on currents of change. Is it ever capable of managing them?
December 18, 2013
Keep talkin' happy talk… till the fat lady sings…
For Margaret Thatcher as for today’s happiness industry, there is no such thing as society.
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For Christopher McKnight Nichols, isolationists were cultural cosmopolitans who distrusted the impact of empire.
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.
A new biography of William James portrays a man who made a brilliant career of asking tough questions.
In Songs of Experience , Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.
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