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The spiritual roots of our strange relationship to work

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Importance of Max Weber in American Studies

American Studies in Europe can sometimes become a kind of ethnic studies. There is an inherited sense still in Western Europe, an association of America with some kind of power and modernity. And one of the interesting things about teaching American Studies outside the United States is that you are occasionally asked to expound on American politics.

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