Andrew Delbanco is Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies at Columbia. His new books, College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be and The Abolitionist Imagination, will be published in April. (February 2012)
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‘The Central Event of Our Past’: Still Murky
February 9, 2012
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
by David W. Blight
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Twain on Twain
April 7, 2011
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His Own Best Straight Man
February 24, 2011
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume One
edited by Harriet Elinor Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, and Leslie Diane Myrick
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Dreams of Better Schools
November 19, 2009
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
by E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us
by Mike Rose
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Should Higher Education Be Free?
August 13, 2009
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The Universities in Trouble
May 14, 2009
Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
by David F. Swensen
Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education
by Peter Sacks
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites
by Mitchell L. Stevens
Fulfilling the Commitment: Recommendations for Reforming Federal Student Aid in Brief by Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson, and others
Trends in College Spending: Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go? by Jane V. Wellman and others
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A Fateful Election
November 6, 2008
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The Right-Wing Christians
April 3, 2008
Head and Heart: American Christianities
by Garry Wills
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‘Scandals of Higher Education’
May 31, 2007
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‘Scandals of Higher Education’: An Exchange
April 26, 2007
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Scandals of Higher Education
March 29, 2007
Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education
by William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin, in collaboration with Susanne C. Pichler
The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
by Daniel Golden
The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
by Walter Benn Michaels
Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education
by Harry R. Lewis
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More
by Derek Bok
Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America
by Donald N. Levine
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The Endangered University
March 24, 2005
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
by Derek Bok
The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle,and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment
by Geoffrey Kabaservice
Distinctively American: The Residential Liberal Arts Colleges
edited by Steven Koblik and Stephen R. Graubard
Stover at Yale
by Owen Johnson
Liberal Education and the Public Interest
by James O. Freedman
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Colleges: An Endangered Species?
March 10, 2005
Stover at Yale
by Owen Johnson
The Future of the Public University in America: Beyond the Crossroads
by James J. Duderstadt and Farris W. Womack
The Uses of the University
by Clark Kerr
Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education
by David L. Kirp
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In Memoriam
February 27, 2003
Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca
edited and with an introduction by Alexander Star
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An Experiment in Darkness
September 20, 2001
The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
by Ernest Freeberg
The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
by Elisabeth Gitter
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Night Vision
January 11, 2001
The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
by Lionel Trilling, edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier
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‘The Decline & Fall of Literature’: An Exchange
April 13, 2000
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‘The Decline & Fall of Literature’: An Exchange
April 13, 2000
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Sunday in the Park with Fred
January 20, 2000
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century
by Witold Rybczynski
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The Decline and Fall of Literature
November 4, 1999
In Plato’s Cave
by Alvin Kernan
The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan
Literature: An Embattled Profession
by Carl Woodring
What’s Happened to the Humanities? edited by Alvin Kernan
The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline
by Robert Scholes
The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies by Michael Bérubé
Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities by John M. Ellis
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On Alfred Kazin (1915–1998)
July 16, 1998
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The Risk of Freedom
September 25, 1997
Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography by Roger Shattuck
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The Great Leviathan
May 15, 1997
Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 1, 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker
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Melville’s Fever
April 4, 1996
Pierre, or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville, edited by Hershel Parker, pictures by Maurice Sendak
Pierre, or the Ambiguities. Historical Note by Leon Howard and Hershel Parker. by Herman Melville, edited by Harrison Hayford, by Hershel Parker, by G. Thomas Tanselle, Historical Note by Leon Howard, by Hershel Parker
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Lyrical Dreiser
November 23, 1989
Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men edited by Richard Lehan
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New Travels with Mark Twain
April 18, 2011
A conversation about the first volume of Mark Twain’s unabridged Autobiography and the distinctive joys and challenges of reading Twain in the twenty-first century.
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Tough Love and Revelation: The Films of Frederick Wiseman
December 10, 2010
The first film by Frederick Wiseman I saw was Titicut Follies (1967). It was the fall of 1969, my freshman year of college, too long ago to trust my memory scene by scene.
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Literary Journalism: A Discussion
May 3, 2013
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Andrew Delbanco on the Universities in Trouble
May 11, 2009
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What Happens Now? A Conversation on the 2008 Election
November 23, 2008