Recommended Reading: “A Conversation With Mark Noll”
Dan Turello interviews Mark Knoll for the Kluge Center.
The Other Neoliberals
While today’s neoliberalism is excoriated for its contribution to inequality (particularly in economic terms), the other neoliberals demonstrated a fondness for compulsory national service and even a return to the military draft as a means to bridge divisions in our society.
The Talking Cure
Posted on October 5, 2015
in THR Web Features
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Sherry Turkle believes that our “capacity for solitude” is undercut by picking up the phone and checking our email.
The Hedgehog’s Array: October 2, 2015
Posted on October 2, 2015
in THR Web Features
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
T. S. Eliot on Psychology and the Modern Novel
Eliot credits Dostoevsky with peering into the abyss at least as intently as Freud and his acolytes did, but nevertheless coming away from the experience with a richer, fuller, and, yes, deeper understanding of human psychology.
The Critical Fate of the Major Novel
by
B.D. McClay
Posted on September 30, 2015
in THR Web Features
Image: Cover detail of Purity by Jonathan Franzen.
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