Guilt
Wilfred M. McClay: The Moral Economy of Guilt. In his grand and gloomy book Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud identified the tenacious sense of guilt as “the most important problem in the development of civilization.” In fact, he continued, [...]
Eleanor
The New York Review of Books reviews two books about Eleanor Roosevelt.
Brock
New York Magazine profiles David Brock. Mediaite profiles New York Magazine’s profile of Brock.
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Finding the Sacred in the Secular, an interview with Elaine Howard Ecklund. For the most part, the sociology of religion has been concerned with understanding how religious people think about faith and spirituality. Yet in recent years, Elaine Howard Ecklund, [...]
Moral Combat
Public Discourse has the first in a two-part review of Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh.