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).
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The Review
It has become the essential means of academic communication. A less-vibrant academic culture is the result.
The Review
Scholars have come to value academic progress over public benefit.
The Chronicle Review
Anticolonial movements led to fundamentalism, dogmatism, and sexism. Why?
The Chronicle Review
The security of Israel remains precarious. Might the universalist tradition of Judaism be a viable alternative?
The Chronicle Review
Can Richard Hofstadter’s insights of a half-century ago help us understand today’s radical right?
The Review
Pierre Manent and Benjamin Barber argue that it is. But for very different reasons, both authors fail to persuade.
The Conversation
Neither the “Free Beacon” nor Jonathan Chait got it right, says a longtime contributor to “The New Republic.”
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When we want to convey ideological extremes, foreign words have a certain je ne sais quoi.
The Conversation
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
Her theories are works of fiction. Her works of fiction are theories, and bad ones at that.
