Other Writings

Other Writings by Christopher Phelps

Scholarly Miscellany

Report on a conference of Russian and American historians (2005)

Obituary for Neal Wood, in Against the Current (with Bob Brenner, 2003)

Review of a book by Neil Jumonville on Henry Steele Commager (2000) (Also available here if you do not have access to the History Cooperative.)

"Philip Foner," in Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999)

Review of The Private Death of Public Discourse by Barry Sanders (1999)

Interpretation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1995)

Review of a book by Alan Ryan on John Dewey for The Nation (1995)

Interview of Christopher Lasch for Journal of American History, conducted with Casey Blake (1994)

Current Events: Political and Topical Writings

Review of Tariq Ali's Bush in Babylon for Against the Current (2005)

A letter to editor of Socialist Worker on Hezbollah (2006)

On Bush, Kerry, Nader, and the dilemma of the left (in Against the Current, co-authored with Johanna Brenner and Stephanie Luce, 2004)

In opposition to the Iraq war and occupation (Against the Current, 2003)

“Why We Shouldn’t Call It War,” Chronicle of Higher Education (2001)

Letter to editor of The New York Times on nuclear weapons (1987)

Essays on Higher Education

"Dream Archive" (2007)

On a much-misrepresented Mansfield campus crisis (2006)

On the crisis of literacy and American universities (2005)

Chronicle of Higher Education series on Fulbright year in Poland (2004-2005)

"Prepare for Departure" (2004)

"Polish Autumn" (2004)

"Being There" (2004)

"Teaching: The View from Poland" (2005)

"Fulbright of the Mind" (2005)

"The Second Time as Farce: The Right's 'New McCarthyism' " (1991)

Additional Writings

Further articles, interviews, comments, and reviews appearing in a variety of print periodicals, both scholarly and popular, but whose contents are not fully available on line, including American Studies, The Journal of American History, Choice, New Politics, Left History, Labor Notes, In These Times, Monthly Review, Against the Current, The Portland Alliance,City Newspaper, and Science & Society.