"In applying a realist approach to controversies over immigration, pornography, race relations, and the apparent communications gap between the genders, Wolfe seeks to demonstrate the advantages of combining the insights of criticism and the tools of social science."-Library Journal
"A plea for a return to liberal thinking, an insistence on the value of 'social criticism beyond politics.' "-Washington Post Book World
"[Wolfe] surveys contemporary public discourse on racial and sexual relations, welfare policy, immigration, pornography, education and cultural politics . . . he manages to bring some fresh thinking to most of these stale debates."-T. J. Jackson Lears, New York Times Book Review
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