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In the face of an uncertain and dangerous world, Americans yearn for a firm moral compass, a clear set of ethical guidelines. But as history shows, by reducing complex situations to simple cases of right or wrong we often go astray.

In "Morality's Muddy Waters," historian George Cotkin offers a clarion call on behalf of moral complexity. Revisiting several defining moments in the twentieth century the American bombing of civilians during World War II, the My Lai massacre, racism in the South, capital punishment, the invasion of Iraq Cotkin chronicles how historical figures have grappled...

Feast of Excess is an engaging and accessible portrait of "The New Sensibility," as it was named by Susan Sontag in 1965. The New Sensibility sought to push culture in extreme directions: either towards stark...

Europe's leading existential thinkers--Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus--all felt that Americans were too self-confident and shallow to accept their philosophy of responsibility, choice, and the absurd. -There is no pessimism in America regarding human nature and social organization, - Sartre remarked in 1950, while Beauvoir wrote that Americans had no -feeling for sin and for remorse- and Camus derided American materialism and optimism. Existentialism, however, enjoyed rapid, widespread, and enduring popularity among Americans. No less than their European...