BOOKS The Despotism of Money GEORGE SCIALABBA “All men are brothers.” (Women too, of course.) If asked to agree or disagree with this statement, taken in a normative sense, most people would...
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Last Men and Women George Scialabba Nietzsche was wrong about liberal democracy. Was he right about the kind of people it might produce? We all know Nietzsche’s parable of the last man. Certain...
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BOOKS The Arch-Heretic GEORGE SCIALABBA THE BAD SIDE OF BOOKS Selected Essays d. h. lawrence edited by geoff dyer New York Review Books $19.95 | 512 pp. T. S. Eliot wrote of Henry James: “He...
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BOOKS George Scialabba Who Decides? The Great Debate Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left Yuval Levin Basic Books, $27.99, 275 pp. In the mid-seventeenth century, to...
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BOOKS George Scialabba Voracious We Have Only This Life to Live The Selected Essays ofJean-Paul Sartre Edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian van den Hoven New York Review Books, $24.95, 555...
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Books A Scourge of Secularism George Scialabba Is God Happy? Selected Essays Leszek Kolakowski Basic Books, $28.99, 327 pp. Ignazio Silone, the novelist and contributor to The God That...
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BOOKS George Scialabba Fire Sale What Money Can't Buy The Moral Limits of Markets Michael Sandel Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27, 244 pp. Perhaps each of the seven deadly sins must have its...
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George Scialabba Witness Memoirs of a Revolutionary Victor Serge Translated by Peter Sedgwick with George Paizis New York Review of Books, $17.95, 521 pp. A stanza from Bertolt Brecht’s poem...
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George Scialabba The S-word Why Not Socialism? G. A. Cohen Princeton University Press, $14.95, 83 pp. I n dark times, it sometimes helps to take a longer view. Abolitionists...
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