Alan Wolfe
Contributor
Alan Wolfe is a professor emeritus of political science at Boston College. He is the author, most recently, of The Politics of Petulance: America in an Age of Immaturity (University of Chicago Press, 2018).
Stories by this Author
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The ReviewThe Unbearable Pointlessness of PowerPoint
It has become the essential means of academic communication. A less-vibrant academic culture is the result. -
The Review
The Vanishing Big Thinker
Scholars have come to value academic progress over public benefit. -
The Chronicle Review
Book Review: The Erosion of Secular Revolutions
Anticolonial movements led to fundamentalism, dogmatism, and sexism. Why? -
The Chronicle Review
Giving the Diaspora Its Due
The security of Israel remains precarious. Might the universalist tradition of Judaism be a viable alternative? -
The Chronicle Review
The Paranoid Style: Then and Now
Can Richard Hofstadter’s insights of a half-century ago help us understand today’s radical right? -
The Review
Book Review: Is the Nation-State Dying?
Pierre Manent and Benjamin Barber argue that it is. But for very different reasons, both authors fail to persuade. -
The Conversation
Alan Wolfe: Why I Was Dropped at ‘TNR’
Neither the “Free Beacon” nor Jonathan Chait got it right, says a longtime contributor to “The New Republic.” -
Consider This
The (Foreign) Language of American Politics
When we want to convey ideological extremes, foreign words have a certain je ne sais quoi. -
The Conversation
Identity Politics Run Amok
Alan Wolfe says a University of California report on the campus climate for Jews ignores the fact that we are long past the days when such politics ruled our campuses. -
The Conversation
The Ridiculous Rise of Ayn Rand
Her theories are works of fiction. Her works of fiction are theories, and bad ones at that.
