Overview :Yeshayahou Leibowitz (1903-1994) fut à la fois savant, théologien, polémiste et moraliste. Chimiste de formation, lecteur de Maïmonide et de... Read More
Overview :From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and... Read More
Overview :When a cultural movement that began to take shape in the mid-twentieth century erupted into mainstream American culture in the late 1990s, i... Read More
Overview :How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emph... Read More
Overview :This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begin... Read More
Overview :We are confronted with a jarring reality that the Left has succeeded in growing the power of the courts. Obama has replaced roughly 30 perce... Read More
Overview :"For centuries," Daniel Horowitz writes, "Americans have worried about the consequences of comfort, affluence, and luxury. They have often g... Read More
Overview :How did the 1950s become "The Sixties"? This is the question at the heart of Daniel Horowitz's On the Cusp. Part personal memoir, part colle... Read More
Overview :The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the mi... Read More
Overview :Ever since the 1963 publication of her landmark book, The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan has insisted that her commitment to women's right... Read More
Overview :Two decades punctuated by the financial crisis of the Great Recession and the public health crisis of COVID-19 have powerfully reshaped hous... Read More
Overview :In a decade of constant crises, perhaps the most formidable challenge that Americans faced in the 1970s was the energy shortage. An era of i... Read More
Overview :As a scientist, philosopher and scholar in Jewish thought, Yeshayahu Leibowitz was one of the most noteworthy thinkers in the twentieth cent... Read More
Overview :From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and... Read More
Overview :How longer lives, greater prosperity, and policy shifts are reshaping aging and retirement Once considered a period of frailty and physical ... Read More