Alan Ryan | The New York Review of Books

Whose Nationalism?

Nationalism: A Short History

by Liah Greenfeld

Reclaiming Patriotism

by Amitai Etzioni

Why Nationalism

by Yael Tamir

March 26, 2020 issue

Letter

Amitai Etzioni

Just Say No

April 23, 2020 issue

An Anglo-Irish Cicero

Empire and Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke

by Richard Bourke

January 18, 2018 issue

The Good Patriots

Moral Imagination

by David Bromwich

March 19, 2015 issue

The Dangers of Patriotism

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence

by David Bromwich

March 5, 2015 issue

In the Spirit of Maya Lin

Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice

by Martha C. Nussbaum

October 9, 2014 issue

A Big British Moment

Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832

by Antonia Fraser

January 9, 2014 issue

The Art of Being Erich Fromm

The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet

by Lawrence J. Friedman, with assistance from Anke M. Schreiber

August 15, 2013 issue

They Who Would Be Immortal!

The Story of America: Essays on Origins

by Jill Lepore

The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death

by Jill Lepore

October 25, 2012 issue

One Virtue at a Time, Please

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-First Century

by Howard Gardner

June 21, 2012 issue

The Passionate Hero, Then and Now

John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand

by Richard Reeves

December 8, 2011 issue

Tocqueville’s Lesson

Tocqueville's Discovery of America

by Leo Damrosch

December 9, 2010 issue

What Happened to the American Empire?

On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy

by Eric Hobsbawm

Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall

by Amy Chua

The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna

The Post-American World

by Fareed Zakaria

The Return of History and the End of Dreams

by Robert Kagan

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October 23, 2008 issue

Tocqueville: The Flaws of Genius

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life

by Hugh Brogan

November 22, 2007 issue

Is Capitalism Good for You?

The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce

by Deirdre N. McCloskey

The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas

by James Buchan

December 21, 2006 issue

Cosmopolitans

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny

by Amartya Sen

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

by Martha C. Nussbaum

June 22, 2006 issue

Founding Mother

Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy

by Louise W. Knight

May 11, 2006 issue

After the Fall

Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

by Tony Judt

November 3, 2005 issue

Waiting for Gordon Brown

June 23, 2005 issue

The Magic of ‘I’

The Ethics of Identity

by Kwame Anthony Appiah

April 28, 2005 issue

Freedom Fighter

John Stuart Mill

by Nicholas Capaldi

March 24, 2005 issue