Zach Dorfman

Articles

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  Hatchet to Hatchet, Dust (Jacket) to Dust: Reading The New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List

  Zach Dorfman on the NYT Nonfiction Bestseller List....

  Zach DorfmanMar 17, 2015

  • Cultural Studies

• Perpetual War for a Perpetual Piece (of the Action)

  The bad news from one of the finest national security journalists working today....

  Zach DorfmanDec 17, 2014

  • History

  • Politics and Economics

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  Long Burn the Fire: On Political Order and Political Decay

  Fukuyama focuses on political decay by analyzing the slow rot of American institutions....

  Zach DorfmanSep 21, 2014

  • History

  • Politics and Economics

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  Letter from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

  "The lived experience of New York, even in all its beauty and vulgarity — the dirt, the people, the cost, the noise, the frenzy, the excitement, even the raw moments of grace — simply does not correspond to its foundation myths."...

  Zach DorfmanAug 28, 2014

• “The Past Is Another Country”: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act

  The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a triumph of one vision — one history — of one America over another....

  Zach DorfmanMay 17, 2014

  • History

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  Jingo Unchained: What World War I Wrought

  WWI is still with us now....

  Zach DorfmanApr 14, 2014

• Ill Fares the Invisible Hand

  Two new books on the new America — the invisible hand as iron fist....

  Zach DorfmanDec 9, 2013

  • Politics and Economics

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  Where the Sun Always Shines. And Where It Never Does.

  Assholes as important subjects for moral inquiry...

  Zach DorfmanOct 3, 2013

• The String in the Maze: On What It Means to Be Human

  PHILOSOPHERS AND POETS have always known that we contain multitudes. At any given moment of any given day, we conceive of ourselves in vastly different terms, and these conceptions are often irreducibly distinct from each another. Some of the foundational ideas ...

  Zach DorfmanApr 8, 2013