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Birthday Notes on William Gass and The Tunnel
Big Other’s Birthday Tribute to William Gass got me to thinking back on The Tunnel, which I read at a fairly formative time in my life. (Also at a time of total psychic collapse, for which it ...
Robert Wiebe’s Self-Rule and American Democracy
I criticized Christopher Lasch’s The True and Only Heaven for reductionism, and in turn commenter Tocqueville criticizes me for reductionism. I think in the reductionism sweepstakes, it’s hard to beat a line like this: The ...
Christopher Lasch on Raising Children
Lasch: “We tried to re-create in the circle of our friends the intensity of a common purpose, which could no longer be found in politics or the workplace.”
Franzen Again
The New York Times wouldn’t print Birdwatching is an Alternative to Love, but they did print a shorter response to Jonathan Franzen’s op-ed bemoaning the loss of love and pain in the modern world of gadgets: Technology and ...
Mark Twain’s Cynicism and That Last Part of Huck Finn
When I was in high school, I read Huck Finn, and like so many others, I thought the book fell into a hole for its last third, when the Jim-Huck adventures end and Tom Sawyer ...
C. Wright Mills on Thorstein Veblen: Outside the Whale
I picked up the recent Oxford anthology of Mills, The Politics of Truth, for cheap. While there’s plenty of problems with Mills’s sociology, he still represents, along with Thorstein Veblen and Erving Goffman, a sort ...
Brian Barry on Robert Nozick
Here’s something less controversial, courtesy of John Protevi and Lawyers Guns and Money: Brian Barry’s amusing review of Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, from 1975. According to the jacket of the book, “Robert Nozick’s ...