The many bonds the German theorist built and maintained across disagreements were beautiful—and ungeneralizable to America’s crisis of comradery today.
Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
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Is Neoliberalism to Blame for America’s Health Care Woes?
Horror stories about private equity-owned hospitals are part of a deeper trend, a new book argues.
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Not Post-Literate Yet
Discouraging surveys and a semi-illiterate president notwithstanding, reports of the death of reading are exaggerated.
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A Feminist Humanist’s Last Word
Gloria Steinem’s surprising and impossibly beautiful last book has lessons for us all.
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The Case for a Shadow Court
Our constitutional system is being torn asunder. Enter an intriguing idea from a great legal mind.
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Who Enabled Trump’s Second Act?
From GOP leaders to titans of business, those who might have mitigated the president’s second term lawlessness instead bent the knee. Each had their reasons.
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Barney Frank’s Last Harsh Warning to the Left
The late congressman’s posthumous book condemns dogmatic insistence on unpopular ideas and offers a roadmap for reconciliation between the center and the left.
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25 Years After 9/11, What Have We Learned?
A new history of the war on terror shows how badly both America and its enemies misunderstood the consequences of their own actions.
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The Swastika and the Red Hat
Comparing Trump to Hitler is considered facile, a trivialization of genocide. But their rises to power are frighteningly similar.
