Cultural observers from Allan Bloom to {Jacques Barzun} have elaborately charted the great dumbing-down of Western life. {If our public intellectuals have a single cri …
“Every book,” Todd Gitlin writes, “begins with a dissatisfaction,” and his new survey of our media-drenched environment (Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and …
In 1971 the American writer William Gaddis published JR, a comic fable about the excesses of capitalism. Essentially a satire of Horatio Alger tales updated …