Degrees
Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin and Rochester
Ph.D. Rochester, 1974
Selected Publications
Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present (Free Press, 2011)
Picture Imperfect: Utopian thought for an Anti-Utopian Age (Columbia University Press, 2005)
The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in the Age of Apathy (Basic Books, 1999)
Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America (Doubleday, 1994)
The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe (Basic Books, 1987; new edition with new Introduction, Basic Books 2000)
The Repression of Psychoanalysis: Otto Fenichel and the Political Freudians (Basic Books, 1983)
Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism (Cambridge University Press, 1981)
Social Amnesia: A Critique of Contemporary Psychology (Beacon Press, 1975; Transaction, 1997)
Anthology: The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions (Times Books, 1995).
Articles and reviews in American Historical Review,Grand Street, Nation, Los Angeles Times, London Review of Books,New York Times, Harpers and elsewhere.
Research
Twentieth Century European and American intellectual history.
Previous Courses by Term
Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Culture and History of Utopias
Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Culture and History of Utopias
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Culture and History of Utopias
Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present
Capstone Seminar: History -- Europe
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Culture and History of Utopias
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Colloquium for Entering Graduate Students in Modern European History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Capstone Seminar: History -- Europe
Culture and History of Utopias
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Culture and History of Utopias
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Capstone Seminar: History -- Europe
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- Europe
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Topics in History: U.S.
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Culture and History of Utopias
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- U.S.
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Topics in History: U.S.
Culture and History of Utopias
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: Europe
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
Culture and History of Utopias
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Colloquium for Entering Graduate Students in Modern European History
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
History of Social Thought
History of Social Thought
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: Europe
Topics in History: Modern Europe
Introduction to Historical Practice
History of Social Thought
History of Social Thought
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Culture and History of Utopias
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Culture and History of Utopias
Introduction to Historical Practice
History and Historians
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
History and Historians
History of France: The Making of Modern France, 1871 to the Present
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Introduction to Historical Practice
History and Historians
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
Previous Courses by Course
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in European History
2019 Spring Quarter
2018 Spring Quarter
2017 Winter Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2011 Fall Quarter
2010 Winter Quarter
2009 Winter Quarter
2008 Winter Quarter
2006 Winter Quarter
2005 Spring Quarter
Introduction to Western Civilization: Circa 1715 to Present
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
2019 Winter Quarter
2018 Winter Quarter
2017 Winter Quarter
2016 Winter Quarter
2015 Winter Quarter
2014 Winter Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2011 Fall Quarter
2011 Spring Quarter
2009 Fall Quarter
2008 Fall Quarter
2007 Fall Quarter
2006 Fall Quarter
2005 Fall Quarter
2004 Fall Quarter
Culture and History of Utopias
2019 Winter Quarter
2018 Winter Quarter
2017 Winter Quarter
2016 Spring Quarter
2015 Spring Quarter
2013 Winter Quarter
2012 Winter Quarter
2011 Winter Quarter
2010 Winter Quarter
2008 Winter Quarter
2007 Winter Quarter
2006 Winter Quarter
2003 Winter Quarter
2002 Winter Quarter
2001 Spring Quarter
2000 Spring Quarter
Introduction to Historical Practice: Variable Topics in U.S. History
Capstone Seminar: History -- Europe
Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars
Colloquium for Entering Graduate Students in Modern European History
2011 Fall Quarter
2005 Fall Quarter
Topics in History: U.S.
2008 Fall Quarter
2007 Fall Quarter
Topics in History: Modern Europe
2008 Fall Quarter
2007 Fall Quarter
2006 Fall Quarter
2004 Fall Quarter
Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- Europe
2008 Fall Quarter
Undergraduate Variable Topics Research Seminars: History -- U.S.
2007 Fall Quarter
Undergraduate Variable Topics Seminars: Europe
2006 Fall Quarter
2004 Fall Quarter
History of Social Thought
2005 Winter Quarter
2004 Winter Quarter
History of Social Thought
2004 Fall Quarter
2003 Fall Quarter
Introduction to Historical Practice
2004 Spring Quarter
2001 Fall Quarter
2001 Spring Quarter
2000 Spring Quarter
1999 Spring Quarter
History of Modern Europe: Era of Total War, 1914 to 1945
2003 Fall Quarter
2002 Fall Quarter
2002 Winter Quarter
2001 Winter Quarter
1999 Fall Quarter
1998 Fall Quarter
History and Historians
History of France: The Making of Modern France, 1871 to the Present