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About this site

This site isn’t an interactive blog; it’s a discursive archive that walks you through selected columns, reviews, essays, and audio and video commentaries. For latest work, click link at the top of this screen. The rest of the site is in thematic sections, including an essay, “Looking for America,” that I commend as an introduction to the site. To access the thematic sections, click a heading in red here, or scroll down to it on screen below this box. Some pdfs come up slowly. Please wait, or write jimsleep@aol.com to receive a pdf as an attachment, free. A Sleeper Sampler

Looking for America

A Civic-Republican Primer

Liberal Education and Leadership Training

The News Media, the Public Sphere, and a Phantom Public

Leaders and Misleaders

Israel’s Tragedy, America’s Folly

New York Nonsense and Urbanities

Folly on the Left

Conservative Contradictions

Our Chattering Classes

Race: Why Skin Color Isn’t Culture or Politics

Scoops and Other Revelations