I first encountered The Death and Life of Great American Cities in college. A course on U.S. urban history assigned Jane Jacobs’s 1961 bombshell of a book during a discussion of urban renewal, and I was a Jacobsean from that …
“The men of Islam are preparing for you what would fill your hearts with terror… ” -Osama bin Laden Is there a perspective from which contemporary terrorism can be seen as part of intellectual history? If so, what is …
A public relations coup has inundated the U.S. with 350,000 copies of Admiral Morison’s “legacy to his countrymen.”* Included among the testimonials for this product are: “a delight to read” (from Bruce Catton, himself a strong brand name); “I whooped …
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