Essays

No-Man’s-Land: C. Wright Mills in England
Penultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics, and Culture in Britain
Edited by Wm. Roger Louis
I.B. Tauris, 2007

The Epigone’s Embrace: Irving Louis Horowitz on C. Wright Mills
Minnesota Review
Spring 2007

James Agee, the Anarchist Sublime
The Gettysburg Review
Winter 2007

James Agee and C. Wright Mills: Sociological Poetry
Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee
Edited by Michael Lofaro
University of Tennessee Press, 2007

Everybody Must Get Stoned
New York Observer
January 10, 2007

Prophesy’s Heroic Prose
New York Observer
December 4, 2006

Perpetual Revelations: C. Wright Mills and Paul Lazarsfeld
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
November 2006

Seeing from the Center: Richard Hofstadter
New York Observer
June 19, 2006

The Deciders: The Power Elite at 50
New York Times
May 14, 2006

Chomsky and Academic History
Counterpunch
January 8, 2005

George Herman Ruth
Sport and American Culture
Edited by Joyce Duncan
ABC-CLIO, 2004

Cold War Culture
Boston Globe
July 4, 2004

New World Order
Boston Phoenix
January 30, 2004

The End of Sociology?
Boston Review
December 2003/January 2004

Against Love?
Boston Phoenix
December 19, 2003

Irving Howe’s Passionate Dissent
Wilson Quarterly
Spring 2003

Brutal Bruno Bettelheim
San Francisco Chronicle
September 8, 2002

Christopher Lasch’s Plain Style
San Francisco Chronicle
August 18, 2002

Paterfamilias on the March
Austin Chronicle
July 5, 2002

The Temple of Literature
Boston Review
Summer 2002

Dear Dwight Macdonald
Boston Review
December 2001/January 2002

Hitchens’s Passion for Polemic
Boston Globe
December 30, 2001

Personal Pragmatism
Boston Review
October/November 2001

Cold War Civil Rights
Commonweal
May 18, 2001

Class and Culture
New Labor Forum
May 1, 2001

Will Teach for Food
Dollars and Sense
March/April 2001

Schools and Society: Progressive Education
Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946, a multimedia CD-ROM
Worth Publishers, 2001

White Lies in the Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Atrocity
Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946, a multimedia CD-ROM
Worth Publishers, 2001

A Massacre on Memorial Day
Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946, a multimedia CD-ROM
Worth Publishers, 2001

Law and Order in Black and White: Policing the Color Line in Atlanta
Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946, a multimedia CD-ROM
Worth Publishers, 2001

Pride and Prejudice: Marcus Garvey and the UNIA
Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946, a multimedia CD-ROM
Worth Publishers, 2001

What Happened to Sex Scandals? Politics and Peccadilloes, Jefferson to Kennedy
Journal of American History
December 2000

The Big Discourse
The Nation
October 9, 2000

Graduate Economics
Washington Post Magazine
April 9, 2000

Sister Revolutions
Austin Chronicle
December 24, 1999

Suicide is Not Painless
Austin Chronicle
December 3, 1999

The More Things Change
Texas Observer
November 26, 1999

Writing Teachers of America Unite!
culturefront
Summer 1999

Blackouts: Symptoms of our Dependence
History News Service
Summer 1999

The Future of Labor’s Past
Labor History
February 1999

Training for What?
Perspectives, newsletter of the American Historical Association
February 1999

Civility Wars
Newsday
May 31, 1998

Journalists—or Defenders of the Faith?
Free Inquiry
Spring 1998