Book interviews tagged Ideology

The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
- ISBN: 978 0 8090 9506 3
- featured in: Living with scarcity does not mean living in poverty; it means changing how we will liveDecember 30, 2008

The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
- ISBN: 978 0 374 22998 6
- featured in: A glimpse into the intellectual life of early modern EuropeJanuary 30, 2009

Adam’s Ancestors: Race, Religion and the Politics of Human Origins
- ISBN: 978 0 8018 8813 7
- featured in: On genesis myths, genetics myths, and the persistent dialogue between science and religion over human beginnings and identityFebruary 6, 2009

Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
- ISBN: 978 0295987521
- featured in: The other half of Edward Said’s Orientalism—and of three decades of polemicsApril 3, 2009

Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe’s Battlegrounds
- ISBN: 978 0 674 03397 9
- featured in: The idea of a Christian Europe is simply a case of historical amnesiaApril 28, 2009

Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy
- ISBN: 978 0691135823
- featured in: America through a political, social, and cultural history of truckingMay 1, 2009

Animals and the Moral Community: Mental Life, Moral Status, and Kinship
- ISBN: 978 0 231 14234 2
- featured in: Animals merit moral status comparable to that of human beingsMay 20, 2009

Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
- ISBN: 978 0 19 534205 5
- featured in: Appreciating what we might call the feminist mainstreamMay 29, 2009

Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America’s Mortgage Market
- ISBN: 978 0 8014 4772 3
- featured in: Sound mortgage markets require a mixed-economy approachJune 24, 2009

Making Sense of Pakistan
- ISBN: 978 0231149624
- featured in: Addressing the ideological confusion at the heart of PakistanJuly 27, 2009

Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 5945 2
- featured in: Remain vigilant about the continuing mysteries of sexJuly 29, 2009

On Tarzan
- ISBN: 978 0820332055
- featured in: Wanting to see if the pursuit of dilettantism and trivia can be intellectually fruitfulAugust 10, 2009

Frantic Panoramas: American Literature and Mass Culture, 1870-1920
- ISBN: 978 0812241747
- featured in: A kind of prehistory of our own media-saturated cultureAugust 31, 2009

Muhammad is Not the Father of any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet
- ISBN: 978 0 8122 4178 5
- featured in: Muhammad’s sonlessness was a function of theological imperativesSeptember 4, 2009

The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism
- ISBN: 978 0674032583
- featured in: Even in a simple color scheme, there is no red without blue and no blue without redSeptember 11, 2009

The Three Cultures: Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
- ISBN: 978 0521518420 hb
- featured in: On the state of scholarship in the American academy, and on the state of humanitySeptember 18, 2009

Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America
- ISBN: 978 1584657736
- featured in: The honeymoon helped to consummate the romance of consumptionSeptember 28, 2009

Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13818 3
- featured in: Reflection on the necessity to depoliticize the veilOctober 5, 2009

Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
- ISBN: 978 0521727327
- featured in: Climate change in a more creative and less pejorative discourseOctober 9, 2009

Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America
- ISBN: 978 0 226 29865 8
- featured in: On the history, logic, and morality of consumer activismOctober 26, 2009

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered
- ISBN: 978 0393335392
- featured in: Understanding Europe’s early people on their own termsOctober 28, 2009

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
- ISBN: 978 0674033221
- featured in: Wal-Mart as a Christian pro-capitalist social movementNovember 4, 2009

True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century China: Twenty Case Histories
- ISBN: 978 0295989075
- featured in: These true stories, from Chinese archives, show how justice was sought through the art of writingDecember 18, 2009

History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche
- ISBN: 978 0415995191
- featured in: How truly wild, bizarre, and contradictory the attitudes towards Islam were—and sometimes areDecember 21, 2009

Knut Hamsun: The Dark Side of Literary Brilliance
- ISBN: 978-0295989457 (hb)
- featured in: The mix of brilliant art and repugnant politics compelled me to write this bookDecember 23, 2009

Chicago 1890: The Skyscraper and the Modern City
- ISBN: 978 0226520780
- featured in: An architectural history of contention about the future of the industrial cityJanuary 4, 2010

Lost to the Collective: Suicide and the Promise of Soviet Socialism, 1921-1929
- ISBN: 978 0801447662
- featured in: Soviet Suicide, the Soviet Individual, Soviet SocietyMarch 12, 2010

The Idea of Galicia: History and Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture
- ISBN: 978 0804762670
- featured in: Geopolitical space may survive in consciousness even after vanishing from the mapAugust 16, 2010