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Russell Jacoby

Russell Jacoby is the author of several books, including The Last Intellectuals and Bloodlust: On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present. He teaches in the history department at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Diversity Street Sketch

Diversity for What?

September 3, 2018
How should we approach diversity as an ideology? To begin with, we can examine the gap between its status as rhetoric and as lived reality. But today’s relentless celebration of diversity overwhelms any skeptics. To posit a decline of diversity seems obviously false. Yet ...

All Hail the Grumbler!

Drop the names of Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, or Leo Strauss at a highbrow dinner party, and everyone will nod, and feel a bit smarter. Like many twentieth-century central European Jewish intellectuals, Arendt, Benjamin, and Strauss have played outsized roles in American ...