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Stephen Holmes

Stephen Holmes teaches at New York University School of Law. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror.

Selected bibliography

  • The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (2007)
  • The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes by Stephen Holmes and Cass Sunstein (2000)
  • The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1996)
  • Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy (1995)
  • Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1984)

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In the LRB archive

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Neo-Con Futurology · 5 October 2006

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subscriber-only content No Grand Strategy and No Ultimate Aim · 6 May 2004

  • Incoherent Empire by Michael Mann

Looking Away · 14 November 2002

  • A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
  • War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton and the Generals by David Halberstam

11 September · 4 October 2001

Transitology · 19 April 2001

  • Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia by Stephen Cohen

Give me the man · 18 March 1999

  • Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis by Alan Dershowitz
  • The Case against Lameduck Impeachment by Bruce Ackerman

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive The End of Idiocy on a Planetary Scale · 29 October 1998

  • The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels