Alan Ryan teaches at Princeton. His recent works include The Making of Modern Liberalism and On Politics: A History of Political Thought.
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They Who Would Be Immortal!
October 25, 2012
The Story of America: Essays on Origins
by Jill Lepore
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
by Jill Lepore
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One Virtue at a Time, Please
June 21, 2012
Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century
by Howard Gardner
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The Passionate Hero, Then and Now
December 8, 2011
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand
by Richard Reeves
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Tocqueville’s Lesson
December 9, 2010
Tocqueville’s Discovery of America
by Leo Damrosch
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What Happened to the American Empire?
October 23, 2008
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 Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria
The Return of History and the End of Dreams
by Robert Kagan
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Tocqueville: The Flaws of Genius
November 22, 2007
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life
by Hugh Brogan
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Is Capitalism Good for You?
December 21, 2006
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce
by Deirdre N. McCloskey
The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas
by James Buchan
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Cosmopolitans
June 22, 2006
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
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Founding Mother
May 11, 2006
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy
by Louise W. Knight
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After the Fall
November 3, 2005
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
by Tony Judt
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Waiting for Gordon Brown
June 23, 2005
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The Magic of ‘I’
April 28, 2005
The Ethics of Identity
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Freedom Fighter
March 24, 2005
John Stuart Mill
by Nicholas Capaldi
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Faith-Based History
December 2, 2004
The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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Time Out?
October 21, 2004
Deliberation Day
by Bruce Ackerman and James S. Fishkin
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The Way to Reason
December 4, 2003
Rationality and Freedom
by Amartya Sen
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Call Me Mister
February 27, 2003
Respect in a World of Inequality
by Richard Sennett
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‘Positive Thinking’
February 27, 2003
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The Power of Positive Thinking
January 16, 2003
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
The Inclusion of the Other
by Jürgen Habermas, edited by Ciaran Cronin and Pablo De Greiff
Knowledge and Human Interests
by Jürgen Habermas
Religion and Rationality
by Jürgen Habermas, edited and with an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta
Jürgen Habermas: A Philosophical-Political Profile
by Martin Beck Matustík
Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification and National Identity
by Jan-Werner Müller
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Visions of Politics
June 27, 2002
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
by Sheldon S. Wolin
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‘Economic Sentiments’
April 11, 2002
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Keynes’s Last Stand
March 14, 2002
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937–1946
by Robert Skidelsky
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A New Vision of Liberty
July 5, 2001
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment
Emma Rothschild
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The Group
May 31, 2001
The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand
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Live and Let Live
May 17, 2001
Two Faces of Liberalism John Gray
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Schools: The Price of ‘Progress’
February 22, 2001
Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms
by Diane Ravitch
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My Way
August 10, 2000
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by Robert D. Putnam
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The Twisted Path to the Top
November 18, 1999
The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
by Nicholas Lemann
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Please Fence Me In
September 23, 1999
Property and Freedom
by Richard Pipes
The Stakeholder Society
by Bruce Ackerman, by Anne Alstott
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Wise Man
December 17, 1998
Isaiah Berlin: A Life
by Michael Ignatieff
The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
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The L-Word
September 24, 1998
Liberalism and Its Discontents
by Alan Brinkley
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The Prophet
November 6, 1997
Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism by Christopher Lasch, edited by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
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Conservatives, Nice and Nasty
June 26, 1997
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
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Dream Time
October 17, 1996
A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman
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The Politics of Dignity
July 11, 1996
The Decent Society by Avishai Margalit, translated by Naomi Goldblum
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Too Nice to Win?
March 21, 1996
Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir by Bill Bradley
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Dangerous Liaison
January 11, 1996
Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elzbieta Ettinger
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It Takes All Kinds
October 5, 1995
The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution by Michael Lind
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The Women in the Cowshed
May 11, 1995
An Inquiry into Well-Being and Destitution
by Partha Dasgupta
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Pragmatism Rides Again
February 16, 1995
The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority by John P. Diggins
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Apocalypse Now?
November 17, 1994
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life by Richard J. Herrnstein, by Charles Murray
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Slips on Downing Street
January 13, 1994
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Yes, Minister
December 2, 1993
The Downing Street Years
by Margaret Thatcher
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Reasons of the Heart
September 23, 1993
The Moral Sense by James Q. Wilson
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Cautionary Tales
June 24, 1993
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
by Jane Jacobs
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Twenty-first Century Blues
May 13, 1993
Preparing for the Twenty-first Century by Paul Kennedy
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Foucault’s Life and Hard Times
April 8, 1993
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
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Invasion of the Mind Snatchers
February 11, 1993
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
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‘Burke’s Livery’
January 28, 1993
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Who Was Edmund Burke?
December 3, 1992
The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Twenty-First Century Limited
November 19, 1992
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The New Inequality
September 24, 1992
The End of Equality by Mickey Kaus
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Professor Hegel Goes to Washington
March 26, 1992
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
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Do-Gooders
November 7, 1991
Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb
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When It’s Rational to be Irrational
October 10, 1991
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
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Voice of Experience
March 1, 1990
Innocence and Experience by Stuart Hampshire
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A Family Romance
November 23, 1989
The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family by William St. Clair
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Distrusting Economics
May 18, 1989
Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions by Robert H. Frank
Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations edited by Diego Gambetta
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Wrong Suburb
September 18, 1975
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The Family Mill
May 29, 1975
James and John Stuart Mill: Father and Son in the Nineteenth Century
by Bruce Mazlish
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Make Your Own Rousseau
March 25, 1971
The Politics of Authenticity by Marshall Berman
The Social Contract by Robert Ardrey
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On Second Reading
January 1, 1970
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The “New” Locke
November 20, 1969
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