Professing Sociology was originally published at a time when sociology commanded widespread interest and public funding
In his new introduction to The Anarchists, Horowitz points out that anarchism is an ideology in search of a movement, and also a psychology in search of a polity
Thorstein Veblen has a place of honor reserved for truly important figures
Review essays and statements written for special occasions may reveal as much about the writer as those written about; this is the presumption undergirding this collection of thirty-five years of criticism and commentary by Irving Louis Horowitz
*Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Biography and Autobiography This is the story of the making of a world-famous sociologist
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 was a benchmark of triumph and a harbinger of tragedy to come
In one of his final works, Stephen Jay Gould spoke of the human race "as a wildly improbable evolutionary event well within the realm of contingency
The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication
Hannah Arendt: Radical Conservative paints a broad picture of the personal traits and professional achievements in the work of an extremely complex iconographic figure in twentieth-century intellectual life
The title, Behemoth, derives from the Hebrew word Behemah-a beast, an enormous creature, monstrously huge and vast
The author puts this book in the best possible context by referring to the "magisterial and paradoxical Dr