Recent Publications in Print and/ or
on the Web
(with links to them or information about them)
An Age of Progress? Clashing
Twentieth-Century Global Forces.
Anthem Press, 2008.
Podcast Interview about it on New
Books in History 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)
Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky,
Anthem Press, 2002 (or online edition).
*Online Reviews in The Moscow Times (MT) or Michigan War Studies Review (MWSR), 2005-2011:
“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)
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)
On the History News Network (HNN)
and/or LA Progressive and/or Hollywood Progressive
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) (also on HNN under a different title)
“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)
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” (Word format) (or 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)
* 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.
**PDF versions also
available at Sandburg
Organization site.