John T. McGreevy

Dec 4, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | John T. McGreevy |Kyle Burke |Lawrence Douglas |Eric Rauchway

Jackson Lears’s new collection confirms his status as an enduring presence in American intellectual life. Written over the course of forty years, these essays address figures as diverse as the nineteenth-century historian Henry Adams and the frequent Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, and topics ranging from the contemporary university to American foreign policy. They invite readers to reflect on a distinguished career.

Nov 12, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | John T. McGreevy |Charles McNamara |Stephen Pope |Regina Munch

Commonweal. No focus group would choose the name. It’s frequently confused with “commonwealth” (as in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, or Kentucky). “Common” is hardly aspirational. “Weal” is obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary provides three definitions. All three are listed under the heading “archaic.”The magazine was founded in 1924.

Oct 23, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | John T. McGreevy |Charles McNamara |Stephen Pope |Regina Munch

Commonweal. No focus group would choose the name. It’s frequently confused with “commonwealth” (as in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, or Kentucky). “Common” is hardly aspirational. “Weal” is obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary provides three definitions. All three are listed under the heading “archaic.”The magazine was founded in 1924.

Mar 27, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | John T. McGreevy |Arvin Alaigh |Xavier M. Montecel |Dorothy Fortenberry

Gary Bass’s Judgment at Tokyoassesses the trials of Japanese leaders conducted by the Allied powers after World War II—a lesser known and, in Bass’s view, less successful counterpart to the Nuremberg trials in Germany. It will surely become the standard account. Bass and his research team have plowed through more than two years of complex legal proceedings and press coverage in multiple languages. The result is unfailingly lucid and intelligent, if perhaps overly detailed.

Mar 2, 2024 | quadrant.org.au | John T. McGreevy

This ambitious book gives an account of the history of the Catholic Church from the French Revolution to the present. McGreevy argues convincingly that the French Revolution determined what the Church would be like till 1960. The Civil Constitution of the Clergy issued by the revolutionary government in 1790 required that citizens select their own bishops and priests. Monasteries were suppressed. The Mass had become illegal. Clergy and nuns had scattered.