Alan Ryan

Alan Ryan’s books include Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism and The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill. He is warden of New College, Oxford.

In the LRB Archive:

• Keep quiet about it: Henry Sidgwick’s Anxieties · 2 June 2005

  • Henry Sidgwick: Eye of the Universe by Bart Schultz

• The Voice from the Hearth-Rug on the Cambridge Apostles · 28 October 1999

  • The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life by W.C. Lubenow

• The Crime of Monsieur Renou · 2 October 1997

  • The Solitary Self: Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity by Maurice Cranston

• Fascism in the Plural · 21 September 1995

  • Fascism: A History by Roger Eatwell
  • Fascism edited by Roger Griffin

• The Middling Sort · 25 May 1995

  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by Christopher Lasch

• The Right Stuff · 24 November 1994

  • The Principle of Duty by David Selbourne

• Bertie and Alys and Ottoline · 28 May 1992

  • The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell. Vol. I: The Private Years, 1884-1914 edited by Nicholas Griffin

• Princeton Diary · 26 March 1992

• Effervescence · 9 November 1989

  • Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event by Steven Blakemore
  • The Impact of the French Revolution on European Consciousness edited by H.T. Mason and William Doyle
  • The French Revolution and the Enlightenment in England 1789-1832 by Seamus Deane

• Tocqueville in Saginaw · 2 March 1989

  • Tocqueville: A Biography by André Jardin, translated by Lydia Davis and Robert Hemenway

• Stone’s Socrates · 27 October 1988

  • The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone

• Letting them live · 4 August 1988

  • A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson
  • The Burning Bush: Anti-Semitism and World History by Barnet Litvinoff
  • Living with Anti-Semitism: Modern Jewish Responses edited by Jehuda Reinharz

• English Individualism Revisited · 21 January 1988

  • The Culture of Capitalism by Alan Macfarlane

• Institutions · 26 November 1987

  • Ruling Performance: British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher edited by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon
  • The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Institutions edited by Vernon Bogdanor
  • Judges by David Pannick

• Can Marxism be rescued? · 17 September 1987

  • An Introduction to Karl Marx by Jon Elster
  • Making sense of Marx by Jon Elster
  • Analytical Marxism edited by John Roemer

• Wartime · 6 November 1986

  • The Enemies Within: The Story of the Miners’ Strike 1984-5 by Ian MacGregor and Rodney Tyler
  • A Balance of Power by Jim Prior

• The Thing · 9 October 1986

  • Whitehall: Tragedy and Farce by Clive Ponting
  • On the Record. Surveillance, Computers and Privacy: The Inside Story by Duncan Campbell and Steve Connor

• Tory History · 23 January 1986

  • English Society 1688-1832 by J.C.D. Clark
  • Virtue, Commerce and History by J.G.A. Pocock

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