Insurrections of the Mind

Contents

Introduction: The Insurrectionists

The Duty of Harsh Criticism

In a Schoolroom

RANDOLPH S. BOURNE

WALTER LIPPMANN

The Future of Pacifism

Meditation in E Minor

The Eclipse of Progressivism

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES

In Dedham Jail: A Visit to Sacco and Vanzetti

The Birth-Control Raid

MARGARET SANGER

Progress and Poverty

Out of the Red with Roosevelt

JOHN DOS PASSOS

The Future of Democracy

BENEDETTO CROCE

The Corruption of Liberalism

Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid

Young Man with a Horn Again

The Art of Translation

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

“In Every Voice, in Every Ban”

Politics and the English Language

Our Stake in the State of Israel

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Positive Thinking on Pennsylvania Avenue

Arthur Miller’s Conscience

Candidate on the Eve: Liberalism Without Tears

JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS

A Jolly Good Fellini

STANLEY KAUFFMANN

The March on Washington

The War on Poverty

Movie Brutalists

Power and Powerlessness: Decline of Democratic Government

HANS J. MORGENTHAU

Random Murder: The New Terrorists

The Liberal’s Dilemma

DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN

Protégé Power

NICHOLAS LEMANN

The Great Carter Mystery

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR.

Liberals and Deficits

MICHAEL KINSLEY

MICHAEL KINSLEY

Here Comes the Groom: A (Conservative) Case for Gay Marriage

ANDREW SULLIVAN

The Value of the Canon

Highway to Hell

The Child Monarch

HENDRIK HERTZBERG

LEON WIESELTIER

Les Très Riches Heures de Martha Stewart

MARGARET TALBOT

Saint Gerhard of the Sorrows of Painting

Mad About You: The Case for Bush Hatred

The Limited Circle Is Pure

A Fighting Faith

The Idea of Ideas

LEON WIESELTIER

Afterword: Mind Without Silos: The Next Hundred Years

Acknowledgments

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