In a midcentury American cultural episode forgotten today, intellectuals of all schools shared a belief that human nature was under threat. The immediate result was a glut of dense, abstract books on the "nature of man." But the dawning "age of the crisis of man," as Mark Greif calls it, was far mor[...]
As seen in the "New York Times" Week in Review, "Harper's Magazine," and discussed on NPR's Marketplace."The Trouble is the Banks" collects 150 letters that Americans (and one Canadian) wrote directly to executives and directors of five big banks in fall 2011, at a time when protests were emerging i[...]