Recent
Publications in Print and/ or on the Web
(with links to
them or information about them)
1. Books
An Age of Progress? Clashing Twentieth-Century Global
Forces. Anthem
Press, 2008.
Podcast
Interview about it on New Books in History website
Review of it on the Wisdom Page website
Excerpt from Chapter 1 on violence
Excerpt
from Chapter 9 on wisdom, prudence, and morality in
the twentieth century
A History of Russia. 2d ed. 2 vols. Anthem Press, 2003-2005 (See also my Russian Limericks)
Vol. 2 (2005) (earlier edition available in Chinese)
The Twentieth Century: Readings in Global History (co-author with Terry & Upshur), McGraw-Hill,
1999.
Russia in the Age of Alexander II,
Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Anthem Press, 2002 (or
online edition).
2. Online Reviews in The Moscow
Times, 2005-2012*
“Looking Both Ways” (Review of Alexander II: The Last
Great Tsar by Edvard
Radzinsky), MT (2005)
“Enemy of the State” (Review of Mark Leier's book
on Mikhail Bakunin), MT (2006)
“Becoming Stalin” (Review of Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Young
Stalin), MT (2007)
“Follow the Leader” (Review of Catriona Kelly's Children's
World: Growing Up in Russia, 1890-1991), MT (2008)
A Host of Russian Films Now Available on Web (6/13/2012), abridged from longer essay below on Hollywood
Progressive site.
3. Reviews
in Michigan War Studies Review (MWSR) and Other War, Violence,
and Peace Writings, 2008-2013
On Leo Tolstoy's Sevastopol Stories,
MWSR (7/2/08)
Review of Leningrad: State of Siege,
MWSR (3/3/09)
Review of From Stalingrad to Pillau, MWSR (2/3/10)
Review of The Shadow
of War: Russia and the USSR, 1941 to the Present, MWSR
(12/1/10)
Review
of Afgantsy: The Russians in
Afghanistan, 1979-89, MWSR (11/9/11)
Review
of Kiev 1941: Hitler's Battle for Supremacy in the East,
MWSR (6/27/12)
“Pvt Benjamin
R. Moss, Co G” (1/13/2013) (an account with major research assistance
by Roger Moss of our great grandfather’s Civil War service); “A Civil War Private’s Odyssey through Battles,
Illnesses, and Military Justice” (an alternate version of above biographical work with
citations).
Review of The 26th
Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry: The Groundhog Regiment (1/20/2013)
(review of book about our great grandfather’s Civil War regiment)
“The Elusiveness of Peace” (A Review of John Gittings. The
Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq (2012) &
Donald Bloxham and Robert Gerwarth, eds. Political Violence in Twentieth-Century
Europe (2011). History: Reviews of New Books, 41, no. 3
(2013), 75-78, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/vhis20/41/3#.UY5bQrUpiSo.
From Section 1 above, see
also Excerpt from Chapter 1 in my Age
of Progress?
From Section 4 below, see
also “Civility and Political Discourse after the
Tucson Shooting,” “Wisdom and War: From Homer's Trojan Horse to Spielberg's War Horse,”and “From 1900 to the Boston Marathon: Reflections on
Killing.”
4. On the History News Network (HNN) and/or LA Progressive (LAP) and/or Hollywood Progressive (HP)**
On
passion, politics, intolerance, and history (6/16/08)
“Obama,
McCain, Bush, Age, Experience, and Wisdom” (8/25/08)
“Obama,
Sandburg and Lincoln” (2/2/09)****
“Do the
Humanities Matter in Hard Times?” (3/30/09)
“Is Obama Too Cerebral?” (9/7/09)
“Fuzzy
Thinking: Obama, Capitalism, and Socialism” (10/5/09)
“Is
Health Care a Human Right?” (11/09/09)
“Obama,
Copenhagen, and the Global Warming Skeptics” (12/06/09)
“Health
Care Reform and Liberal Values” (3/29/10)
“From
an Economy of Consumption to an Economy of Sustainability” (4/21/10)
“Reflections
on President Obama's University of Michigan Commencement Speech” (5/17/10)
“BP, Corporations, Capitalism, Progressivism, and
Government” (5/24/10)
“The Recent Press and E. F. Schumacher’s Warnings” (5/28/10)
“From Las Vegas to Yosemite: Reflections on American
Culture” (10/13/10)
“The
Party of No and the New START Treaty” (11/22/10)
“Anton
Chekhov: A Man for Our Times” (11/29/10)
“W. H. Auden, Humor, and the Politics of Today” (12/20/10)
“Civility and Political Discourse after the
Tucson Shooting” (1/10/11)
“Progressivism and a Tea-Party Approach to State
Government”(2/14/11)
“Reflections on The Last Station [film]
and Tolstoy” (3/21/11)
“E. F. Schumacher, Jerry Brown, Japan, Bees, and Wisdom” (4/2/11)
“Why Literature
Matters: A Historical Perspective” (4/11/11)
“Boehner, Day, and Obama: Contrasting Christian Approaches
to Society and Politics” (5/19/11)
“Dorothy Day, Radicalism, and Present-Day Politics” (10/5/11)
“Gorbachev and Obama” (10/10/11)
“Is Consumer Capitalism Outdated?” (10/16/11)
“Hurry to See Borgen: A
Ten-Part Series Political Drama”
(11/6/11)
“Why Does the 99 Percent Let Athletes, Executives,
and Movie Stars Get Away with Huge Salaries?” (12/5/11)
“What Speaker Boehner Should Have Told House Republicans
about Compromise—A Year Ago” (12/22/11)
“Why Leftists Should Support Obama’s Reelection” (1/5/12)
“Carl Sandburg, Hollywood, Media, and Marilyn
Monroe” (1/13/12)
“Keynes and Hayek, Obama and the Republicans” (1/23/12)
“Reflections on Literature: Marge Piercy’s Gone to
Soldiers” (2/2/12)
“Santorum, Gingrich, U. S. Bishops, Catholic Women, and
Birth Control” (2/19/12)
“What is True Political Wisdom? A Primer for the 2012
Election” (3/5/12)
“Does Barack Obama Have True Political Wisdom?” (3/12/12)
“Can Capitalist Cultures Become More Humane?” (3/16/12)
“Russian Films on YouTube: From Eisenstein’s Masterpieces
to the Present” (3/28/12)***
“Russia and the West in the Films of Karen Shakhnazarov, 1984-2009” (4/16/12)
“Russia's Post-Stalinist Master of Film Comedy: Eldar Ryazanov” (5/7/12)
“Wisdom
in Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision” (5/21/12)
“E. F. Schumacher: The Perils of Productivity” (5/28/12)
“Nationalism, Heroism, and ‘Manliness’ in the Russian
Films of Alexei Balabanov” (6/5/12)
“Racism, Wheeling, and a Small-Town Newspaper, 1968 and
2008” (6/12/2012)
“Wisdom and War: From Homer's Trojan Horse to Spielberg's War Horse” (6/25/2012)
“Blessed Are the Poor, But Not in America: Reflections on
Peter Edelman’s So Rich, So Poor” (6/29/2012)
“Religion and Life: A Personal and Public Essay” (7/1/2012)
“Advertising,
Our National Values, and Truth and Beauty” (7/5/2012)
“Mitt
Romney's Soliloquy” (7/16/2012)
“Mark
Twain's Progressive and Prophetic Political Humor” (7/28/2012)
“Cornel
West and Barack Obama: Prophet and President” (8/6/2012)
“Dorothy
Day, Pacifism, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki” (8/8/2012)
“The Humanism of Mario Vargas Llosa’s The
Dream of the Celt” (8/13/2012)
“The 2012 Election: Freedom, Justice, Fairness, and
Opportunity” (8/20/2012)
“Hurry
to See Season 2 of Borgen” (9/2/2012)
“2012 Politics and William James” (9/3/2012)
“American Masters: The Day Carl Sandburg Died” (9/25/2012)
“Ideology and Pragmatism: The Republicans and Obama” (10/19/2012)
“The President We Now Need” (11/8/2012)
“From the Dust Bowl to Hurricane
Sandy” (11/23/2012), aka “Lessons
from the Dust Bowl”
“Lincoln, Spielberg, Sandburg, Kennedy, and
Compromise” (12/24/2012)
“Progressive TV Journalism: Moyers & Company, Media,
and Vietnam” (2/11/13)
“Testing the New Pope's Commitment to
Poverty” (aka “Pope Francis,
Dorothy Day, Peace, and Poverty”) (3/18/2013)
“Interracial Love in Alice Childress’s Wedding
Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White” (4/8/2013)
“Our Dysfunctional Economics and Politics: Reflections on
Joseph Stiglitz’s The Price of Inequality” (4/17/2013)
“The Senate's Shameful Lack of Courage on Guns” (4/18/2013)
“From 1900 to the Boston Marathon: Reflections on
Killing” (4/25/2013)
“More Money But a
Sicker Planet?” (5/7/2013)
“Progressivism” (5/18/2013)
5. Online Materials Related
to Modern Wisdom, 2009-Present
“Portraits of Modern Wisdom: An Introduction” (Word format) (or PDF)
“The
Wisdom of Carl and Paula Sandburg” (Word format) (or PDF)****
“Carl
Sandburg’s Wisdom through Humor” (Word format) (or PDF)****
“The
Wisdom of Andrei Sakharov” (Word format) (or PDF)
“The Wisdom of E. F. Schumacher” (Word format) (or PDF)
“The
Wisdom of Anton Chekhov” (Word format) (or PDF)
“The Wisdom of
Dorothy Day” (PDF)
“Howard McClusky: A Wise and Good Man” (Word format)
“Wisdom, Golf, and Obama” (Word format) (or PDF)
"Goals, Values, and Wisdom: Unsolicited Advice to
Young College Students" (or PDF)
“E. F. Schumacher on Wisdom and Education” (HTML) (or PDF)
“W. H. Auden’s Wisdom, Faith, and Humor” (Word format) (or PDF)
“Wisdom, Humor, and Faith: A Historical View” (Word format) (or PDF)
“Wisdom from Russia: The Perspectives of Dorothy Day and
Thomas Merton” (Word format) (or PDF)
“Wisdom
and Literature: An Introduction” (Word Format) (or PDF)
Review of Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe, Practical
Wisdom
Review of European SPES
Cahier 7: Leading With Wisdom
“Reflections on Wisdom and Politics” (Word format) (or PDF)
“Barack Obama and Political Wisdom” (Word format) (or PDF)
“Love: The Greatest Wisdom Virtue” (PDF)
From other sections, see also “Obama, McCain, Bush, Age, Experience, and Wisdom,” “Wisdom
in Edith Pearlman’s Binocular Vision,” and “Wisdom and War: From
Homer's Trojan Horse to Spielberg's War Horse.”
* My MT
Reviews are no longer available online without a subscription, so I have
provided the alternate links indicated. Many of my other reviews in
journals like The Russian Review and Choice can also
be accessed online through university online subscription services. An older
essay, “Vladimir Soloviev and
the Jews in Russia,” from The Russian Review (April
1970) is also now openly available.
** Many of these essays first appearing on one blog have been
reposted on one of the other two, sometimes with a different title. When
reposted from HNN to LAP or HP illustrations are usually added. HP is currently
offline. To view any offline publications, contact me directly at wmoss@emich.edu.
*** Shorter version available on Moscow Times site.
**** PDF versions also available at Sandburg Organization site.