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Constructing the Liberal Subject
NLR 94, July-August 2015, pp. 143-150in
Subjects: Aesthetics , United States
David Simpson on Mark Greif, The Age of the Crisis of Man. Crystalization of liberal universalist discourses through the eras of FDR and McCarthy.
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Home Alone
NLR 93, May-June 2015, pp. 99-111in
Subjects: United States , War and Peace
Costs of America’s imperial project registered in the emotional damage inflicted on its soldiers, and multiplier effects on those around them. Contrasting perspectives—reportage, blockbuster, trauma-group documentary—on men and war, as veterans’ suicides overtake us battlefield casualties.
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Mosaics of American Nationalism
NLR 88, July-August 2014, pp. 69-87in
Subjects: United States
Annealed through expansionism after the Civil War, could America’s sectional divisions re-emerge if the empire falters? Kevin Pask explores the changing parameters—closing frontiers, rising Sunbelt—of the nationalism that dares not speak its name.
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Southern Questions
NLR 85, January-February 2014, pp. 147-160in
Subjects: History and Historiography , United States
Dylan Riley on Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself. Historical reframing of the New Deal for the age of Obama.
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Crash of 1837
NLR 84, November-December 2013, pp. 153-160in
Subjects: History and Historiography , United States
Tom Mertes on Alasdair Roberts, America’s First Great Depression. Political outcomes of economic crisis in the antebellum United States.
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Consilium
NLR 83, September-October 2013, pp. 113-167in
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , United States , International Relations
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Imperium
NLR 83, September-October 2013, pp. 5-111in
Subjects: United States , International Relations
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The Toughness Crew
NLR 82, July-August 2013, pp. 145-152in
Subjects: United States , War and Peace , International Relations
Anders Stephanson on Peter Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome. American foreign policy from Wilson to Obama, through the spectacles of Niebuhrian realism.
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Homeland
NLR 81, May-June 2013, pp. 5-32in
Subjects: United States
Deadlocks of American politics viewed within a longer optic, as outcomes of interlocking determinants—regime of accumulation, sociological shifts, cultural mutations, catalytic minorities—within an all-capitalist ideological universe.
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Systemic Slowdown?
NLR 80, March-April 2013, pp. 132-139in
Subjects: Economic Theory , United States
Kozo Yamamura on Tyler Cowen, The Great Stagnation. Can flagging growth in the US be explained by closing technological frontiers?
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