Books
The Short American CenturyA PostmortemEdited by Andrew BacevichHarvard University Press, $25.95, 296 pp.
This collection of essays constitutes a how-to manual for people who sense something deeply wrong with the current bipartisan consensus on American power, but can’t quite articulate what it is.
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If you take A Case for Irony seriously and read it carefully, there’s a good chance it will convince you that irony is an essential constituent of a life well lived.
Might arrangements backed by the U.S. government turn out to be no more trustworthy than the pension promises made to so many employees of U.S. corporations now busy trying to dump the “legacy costs” of yesterday’s contracts?
Steven Millhauser's new book, We Others: New and Selected Stories, shows that the author is neither difficult nor obscure, but rather a deeply American writer, working in some very old-fashioned veins of New England storytelling.
What counts as authentically “Catholic,” and who gets to make that determination? That is the focus of this timely collection about the persistent problem of authority in contemporary Catholicism.
