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A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society cha...
Social Science and Moral Obligation
Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies,...
The director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life shares his latest collection of essays on a broad range of topics, from sex to ...
What it is and how to Combat it
A leading political scientist identifies "political evil" as wrongdoing perpetrated by individuals with specific political goals, cites specific examp...
How We Actually Live Our Faith
In this astounding account, a leading sociologist demonstrates that religion in America has become so tamed and softened that it hardly serves any of ...
America in an Age of Immaturity
How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing...
With the end of the Cold War, the death of Communism, and the decline of Socialism, what are the primary issues, ideologies, and parties that now stru...
How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It
Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observe...
Exploring the tension at the heart of America’s culture wars, this is “a very fine book on a very important subject” (Mark A. Noll, author of Th...
What Middle-class Americans Really Think About: God, Country, Family, Racism, Welfare, Immigration, Homosexuality, Work, the Right, the Left, and Each Other
Reveals that many Americans share the same opinions and values about middle class society...
A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life
In the wake of a bitter presidential campaign and in the face of numerous divisive policy questions, many Americans wonder if their country has split ...
"Wolfe examines the ills of American society in the 1990s ... [and illustrates] the paradoxes of social criticism."--Jacket....
DIVThe past few decades have brought a shift in the nature of American democracy—an alarming shift that threatens such liberal democratic values as ...
Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science
Are we losing touch with our humanity? Yes, contends Alan Wolfe in this provocative critique of modern American intellectual life. From ecology, socio...
Danger or Opportunity?
The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues su...
Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews
An eloquent, controversial argument that says, for the first time in their long history, Jews are free to live in a Jewish state—or lead secure and ...
Domestic Sources of the Cold War Consensus
Historical examination of the ideologiy of the Soviet "threat," and its place in U.S. politics....
The Rise and Fall of the Politics of Growth
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Repression in America
The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice
Focusing on the traditional virtues of loyalty, honesty, self- restraint, and forgiveness, Wolfe (religion and American public life, Boston College) d...
Interpreting the Pew Study on Jewish Identity in America Today
Who is a Jew in 21st century America? Is membership in “the tribe” defined by shared religious beliefs? Common ethnic backgrounds? Familiar holida...
Tradition and Resistance
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Publ...
Mapping the American Moral Landscape
Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? T...
How to Succeed in Business Markets
Discusses the principles and approaches to strategic marketing in the business-to-business sector. This text describes how business-to-business market...
The Key to Getting Better Results
Aims to show managers how to sell internally, and the benefits of corporate internal marketing. It explores the concepts of integration and best pract...
This guide covers: how to get the most from every marketing pound; developing an appropriate marketing strategy; setting budgets and allocating resour...