What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens. — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich. — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
