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Moral Freedom (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Alan Wolfe, a sociologist and political scientist with a long and distinguished academic publication record, has become one of the United States’ premier public intellectuals. Although his earlier works often had the technicality required in the learned professions, they focused on issues central to the “big” conversations: repression of dissent, the Soviet threat, the costs of economic growth, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray’s controversial book The Bell Curve (1994), and the relation of moral inquiry in the social sciences. Typical of Wolfe’s efforts is...

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