Alan Ryan
Alan Ryan is Warden of New College, Oxford, and the author of biographies of John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Dewey. (October 2008)
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October 23, 2008: What Happened to the American Empire?
On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy by Eric Hobsbawm
Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall by Amy Chua
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna
The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
November 22, 2007: Tocqueville: The Flaws of Genius
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life by Hugh Brogan
December 21, 2006: Is Capitalism Good for You?
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deirdre N. McCloskey
The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas by James Buchan
June 22, 2006: Cosmopolitans
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny by Amartya Sen
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership by Martha C. Nussbaum
May 11, 2006: Founding Mother
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight
November 3, 2005: After the Fall
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
June 23, 2005: Waiting for Gordon Brown
April 28, 2005: The Magic of 'I'
The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
March 24, 2005: Freedom Fighter
John Stuart Mill by Nicholas Capaldi
December 2, 2004: Faith-Based History
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb
November 4, 2004: The Election and America's Future
October 21, 2004: Time Out?
Deliberation Day by Bruce Ackerman and James S. Fishkin
December 4, 2003: The Way to Reason
Rationality and Freedom by Amartya Sen
February 27, 2003: Call Me Mister
Respect in a World of Inequality by Richard Sennett
February 27, 2003: 'Positive Thinking' (letter)
January 16, 2003: The Power of Positive Thinking
A Berlin Republic: Writings on Germany by Jürgen Habermas, translated from the German by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl
The Past as Future by Jürgen Habermas, interviewed by Michael Haller, translated from the German and edited by Max Pensky, with an introduction by Peter Hohendahl
Knowledge and Human Interests by Jürgen Habermas
The Inclusion of the Other by Jürgen Habermas, edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff
Religion and Rationality by Jürgen Habermas, edited and with an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta
Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity by Jan-Werner Müller
Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile by Martin Beck Matustík
June 27, 2002: Visions of Politics
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life by Sheldon S. Wolin
April 11, 2002: 'Economic Sentiments' (letter)
March 14, 2002: Keynes's Last Stand
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937–1946 by Robert Skidelsky
July 5, 2001: A New Vision of Liberty
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment Emma Rothschild
May 31, 2001: The Group
The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand
May 17, 2001: Live and Let Live
Two Faces of Liberalism John Gray
February 22, 2001: Schools: The Price of 'Progress'
Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms by Diane Ravitch
August 10, 2000: My Way
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam
November 18, 1999: The Twisted Path to the Top
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann
September 23, 1999: Please Fence Me In
Property and Freedom by Richard Pipes
The Stakeholder Society by Bruce Ackerman, by Anne Alstott
December 17, 1998: Wise Man
Isaiah Berlin: A Life by Michael Ignatieff
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, by Roger Hausheer
September 24, 1998: The L-Word
Liberalism and Its Discontents by Alan Brinkley
November 6, 1997: The Prophet
Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism by Christopher Lasch, edited by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
June 26, 1997: Conservatives, Nice and Nasty
Growing Up Republican: Christie Whitman: The Politics of Character by Patricia Beard
Christine Todd Whitman: The Making of a National Political Player by Art Weissman
October 17, 1996: Dream Time
A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman
July 11, 1996: The Politics of Dignity
The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum
March 21, 1996: Too Nice to Win?
Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir by Bill Bradley
January 11, 1996: Dangerous Liaison
Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger
October 5, 1995: It Takes All Kinds
The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution by Michael Lind
May 11, 1995: The Women in the Cowshed
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution by Partha Dasgupta
February 16, 1995: Pragmatism Rides Again
The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority by John P. Diggins
November 17, 1994: Apocalypse Now?
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein, by Charles Murray
January 13, 1994: Slips on Downing Street (letter)
December 2, 1993: Yes, Minister
The Downing Street Years by Margaret Thatcher
September 23, 1993: Reasons of the Heart
The Moral Sense by James Q. Wilson
June 24, 1993: Cautionary Tales
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics by Jane Jacobs
May 13, 1993: Twenty-first Century Blues
Preparing for the Twenty-first Century by Paul Kennedy
April 8, 1993: Foucault's Life and Hard Times
The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller
Michel Foucault by Didier Eribon, translated by Betsy Wing
To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life by Hervé Guibert, translated by Linda Coverdale
February 11, 1993: Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking by David Bromwich
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff
Community of Learning: The American College and the Liberal Arts Tradition by Francis Oakley
January 28, 1993: 'Burke's Livery' (letter)
December 3, 1992: Who Was Edmund Burke?
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O'Brien
November 19, 1992: Twenty-First Century Limited
September 24, 1992: The New Inequality
The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus
March 26, 1992: Professor Hegel Goes to Washington
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
November 7, 1991: Do-Gooders
Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb
October 10, 1991: When It's Rational to be Irrational
The Cement of Society: A Study of Social Order by Jon Elster
Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster
Solomonic Judgments: Studies in the Limitations of Rationality by Jon Elster
March 1, 1990: Voice of Experience
Innocence and Experience by Stuart Hampshire
November 23, 1989: A Family Romance
The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family by William St. Clair
May 18, 1989: Distrusting Economics
Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions by Robert H. Frank
Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations edited by Diego Gambetta
September 18, 1975: Wrong Suburb (letter)
May 29, 1975: The Family Mill
James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century by Bruce Mazlish
March 25, 1971: Make Your Own Rousseau
The Politics of Authenticity by Marshall Berman
The Social Contract by Robert Ardrey
January 1, 1970: On Second Reading (letter)
November 20, 1969: The "New" Locke
Locke and Berkeley edited by David M. Armstrong, edited by C.B. Martin
The Political Thought of John Locke by John Dunn
John Locke: Problems and Perspectives edited by John Yolton
The Educational Writings of John Locke edited by James Axtell
John Locke: Two Tracts on Government edited by Philip Abrams
Locke's "Two Treatises of Government" edited by Peter Laslett
Books by Alan Ryan
Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education (1998)
The Bones Wizard (1998)
John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism (1995)
Bertrand Russell: A Political Life (1988)
The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill (1987)
Property (1987)
Property and Political Theory (1984)
J. S. Mill (1974)
The Philosophy of Social Explanation (1973)
The Philosophy of the Social Sciences (1970)