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Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Why do professors all tend to think alike? What makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects should be required? Why do teachers and scholars find it so difficult to transcend the limits of their disciplines? Why, in short, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable? The answer, Louis Menand argues, is that the institutional structure and the educational ...

The Fed Unbound is a warning about how an unelected, unaccountable institution gained immense power during the pandemicExposes the root of our economic inequality and the threats that are posed to our economyThis book does for the Central Bank what Tim Wu's The Curse of Bigness did for antitrust law

Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense - economic and political, artistic and personal.

An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." -Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post"The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." -David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a most anticipated book of April by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Oprah DailyIn his follow-up to the Pulitze...

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In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar yearsThe Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense-economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end...

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