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Addressing the China Challenge: Realisms Right and Wrong
What does the future hold for US–China relations, and what does it mean to be realistic about that future?...
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Jonathan Kirshner
Jonathan Kirshner is a professor of political science at Boston College. He is the author of numerous books, including An Unwritten Future: Realism and Uncertainty in World Politics (2022), American Power After the Financial Crisis (2014), Hollywood’s Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America (2012), and the novel Urban Flight (2015).
Articles
Rigged Capitalism and the Rise of Pluto-populism: On Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism”
Jonathan Kirshner reviews Martin Wolf’s “The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.”...
“A Very Strong Effect on the World”: A Conversation with Phillip Lopate
The noted essayist discusses his new anthology of essays, “The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945–1970.”...
A Very Acute Watcher: A Conversation with David Thomson
Jonathan Kirshner interviews David Thomson on his book “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors.”...
The Fire Last Time
What our financial saviors have failed to grasp about the Great Recession....
Confessions of a Left-Conservative: Norman Mailer in the Library of America
An essential writer in his quintessential decade....
Systemic Breakdown
Mervyn King’s "The End of Alchemy" is a book that demands close attention....
Mathematician, Statesman, Philosopher: The Life of John Maynard Keynes
Keynes, as Keynes, remains largely unknown and unappreciated: reduced to clichés, or, most commonly, invoked as an epithet....
Back to the Next Great Recession
Eichengreen's main point about the Great Recession is well taken: we ought to stop patting ourselves on the back and take a much harder look at what we got wrong....
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