A new collection of essays from one of the most courageous and
honest thinkers writing todayThe question of the public
intellectual is very much in the air again, writes Alan Wolfe. As
one of our eminent social commentators, Wolfe should know; he's
been writing, with fierce intellectual independence, about American
public and private life since the 1960s. In this new collection of
essays spanning seven years of contributions to The New Republic,
The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and other prominent publications,
Wolfe displays the courage necessary to write honestly--yet free of
ideology, cant, and piety--about the things Americans take very
seriously. Wolfe thinks big; indeed, the essays in An Intellectual
in Public confront many of the most controversial issues of our
time: country, God, race, sex, material consumption, and left and
right. Beginning and ending the book are original essays describing
the public intellectual's role, and how Wolfe believes that role
ought to be filled. An Intellectual in Public is not only a
demonstration of Wolfe's pointed analytical skills but a testament
to his belief that severely ideological thinking is inappropriate
for some of our most difficult problems, and that neither the right
nor the left can speak for all of America. Alan Wolfe is the
director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
and also Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is
the author of over a dozen books, including One Nation After All:
What Middle Class Americans Really Think About: God, Country,
Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the
Right, the Left and Each Other.
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