June/July/Aug 2010

Pilgrim’s Progress

Christopher Lasch came to embrace hope against hope

Chris Lehmann


Hope in a Scattering Time:

A Life of Christopher Lasch

by Eric Miller

Wm B Eerdmans Publishing Co

$32.00 List Price

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Christopher Lasch was arguably the last, and almost certainly the best, practitioner of a vanished tradition in American letters—an influential social critic who’d been recruited as an informal adviser to presidents; a university pedagogue whose work was addressed to a general, politically engaged readership; and, most of all, a restless intellect, in the best senses of both words, unafraid to call out stultifying orthodoxies

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