Noam Chomsky has won considerable attention and respect, especially in segments of the American left, for his views on the Middle East. His views have also provoked much opposition. Chomsky has now published Peace in the Middle East?, a collection …
Barrington Moore’s Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy is one of the finest books ever written by an American social scientist. With relentless intellectual honesty and range, Moore manages to shed new light on some of the central questions of …
I take it for granted that in a modern society we are all implicated in moral responsibility for what the state of which we are citizens does or doesn’t do. Thus remediable urban blight, the neglect of retarded children, the …
In The Political Economy of Slavery, Eugene Genovese has made an original contribution to our understanding of ante-bellum Southern history. His contribution lies not so much in the discovery of new facts as in placing familiar materials in a fresh theoretical context. Genovese is the first to systematically …
