Zach Dorfman

Zach Dorfman is senior editor of Ethics & International Affairs, the journal of Carnegie Council. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The National Interest, The Awl, Dissent, The American Interest, and elsewhere.

Articles

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
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
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
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
- Economics and Finance
- Politics
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
Zach DorfmanApr 8, 2013