Compiled by Robert Cummings
Social Science Division, Truman State University, Kirksville, MO 63501
e-mail: ss89@truman.edu

Last updated: 7 July 2003

The bibliography is an ongoing project, with new items added as I find them. In recent years, discovering new items has become more difficult, but they do continue to turn up, as in the case of 1991-21, which I discovered this spring, and 2002-1, newly published last year. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of writings by Christopher Lasch that have not been included in the bibliography.

The bibliography is organized by year of publication: within each year, books are listed first, then pieces in books, then periodical pieces in roughly chronological order. Cross-references have been added for items subsequently included in The Agony of the American Left (1969-1), The World of Nations (1973-1), The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (1995-1), and Women and the Common Life (1997-1). Many of these pieces were reworked in varying degrees for these books, but I have not tried to indicate the extent of revision. I have not included such cross-references for Haven in a Heartless World (1977-1), The Culture of Narcissism (1979-1), and The Minimal Self (1984-1), because previously published material that made its way into these books was usually “reworked beyond much resemblance to [the] earlier essays,” as Lasch put it in the acknowledgments for The Culture of Narcissism. Nor have I included cross-references for periodical pieces that appear in The True and Only Heaven (1991-1), in this case because it’s likely those pieces (e.g., 1989-2, 1989-3, 1989-6, 1990-4, and 1990-12) were drawn from the book manuscript as it was being written or after it was finished but before the book was published.

I have provided information about article reprints that appeared elsewhere in periodicals, edited anthologies, and the like; but I have not done this for excerpts from his already published books that were reprinted in such settings. I have also not included information on foreign editions and translations of his books and articles.

An earlier version of the bibliography appeared in Intellectual History Newsletter 16 (1994): 67-80.

A few words about this latest update: As noted, two new items by Lasch have been added, along with several new reprint entries and full bibliographical information about 1988-2 (special thanks to Gregory Sumner for locating a copy of this exceptionally fugitive item in a library in Italy). The major additions in this update, however, come in the form of new kinds of material, briefly described below: 

(1)   For each of Lasch’s 11 books, I have added a list of English-language reviews and article-discussions that appeared in scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Each separate list is located beneath the entry for that book in the bibliography. For these lists, I have adopted a bibliographical format modeled on that used by Barbara Levine in her magisterial Works About John Dewey, 1886-1995 (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996): omitting the title (if any) of the review or article-discussion, each citation includes the title of the journal, magazine, or newspaper; the volume number (where appropriate); the date of publication; the page numbers; and, at the end, the name of the author(s) (in parentheses). Unlike Levine’s practice, I have listed items in chronological order. Although I have tried to be as comprehensive as possible, I make no claim to exhaustive coverage in my compilations. I have obtained copies of all of these reviews or article-discussions (for some of the newspaper reviews, I have relied on copies obtained via Lexis-Nexis).

(2)   In Appendix 2, I’ve added a list of sound and video recordings of Lasch lectures and conference-discussions.

(3)   In Appendix 3, I’ve added a list of English-language writings about Lasch’s life and work. Here, too, I cannot claim to be totally exhaustive in my coverage, though I have searched as widely as possible. In the future, some of the articles currently listed under heading (1) will be moved to Appendix 3. I’ve also obtained copies of all of these items.

I would very much appreciate hearing from readers with items to add to these new materials, especially those under the headings of (1) and (3).

Acknowledgments: In compiling the bibliography and the new material in this latest update, I want to acknowledge, with deep gratitude, the assistance of my student assistants Kate Lacey, Sally Noedel, and Katie Turnure; my friends Peter Agree, Gregory Sumner, Bruce Thompson, and Robert Westbrook; and the ever-reliable staff of Truman State University’s Pickler Memorial Library, especially former interlibrary loan director Sheila Swafford.

1953

1. “Heroic Leader Hard to Love.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (18 October 1953): 4E. Review of The Man in Leather Breeches: The Life & Times of George Fox by Vernon Noble.

1954

1. “Imperialism and the Independents: A Conflict of Allegiance.” A.B. honors thesis, Harvard College, 1954. Citation from the Harvard Library catalog. A copy of the thesis is in the Lasch Papers (Box 58, Folder 30).
2. “Three Mixed Up People.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1 February 1954): 2B. Review of The Final Hours by Jose Suarez Carreno.
3. "Christmas 1853: from the Diary of Mary Wilson (1840-1907)." Harvard Advocate 137 (March 1954): 6-7.

1955

1. “Donald Richberg and the Idea of a National Interest.” A.M. thesis, Columbia University, 1955. Citation from the Columbia history department records. A copy of the thesis is in the Lasch Papers (Box 59, Folder 1).
2. “Journey Into Slavery.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (18 September 1955): 4B. Review of Band of Angels by Robert Penn Warren.
3. “Life in the Old South.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (8 November 1955): 2B. Review of Green Pond by Evan Brandon.

1956

1. “A Past That Never Was.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (15 January 1956): 4D. Review of Glenport, Illinois by Paul Darcy Boles.
2. “New Deal Born at Hyde Park?” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (31 March 1956): 4A. Review of The Economic Thought of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Origins of the New Deal by Daniel R. Fusfeld.           

1958

1. “Production Is Not the Key: Harvard Professor’s Brilliant Survey of Our Society.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (15 June 1958): 4C. Review of The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith.
2. “The Anti-Imperialists, the Philippines, and the Inequality of Man.” Journal of Southern History 24 (August 1958): 319-31. Reprinted in “The Anti-imperialists and the Inequality of Man,” American Expansion in the Late Nineteenth Century: Colonialist or Anticolonialist?, ed. J. Rogers Hollingsworth (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968), pp. 89-95 (without footnotes); “The Anti-Imperialist as Racist,” American Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, ed. Thomas G. Paterson (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1973), pp. 110-17 (without footnotes); Race and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Ages of Territorial and Market Expansion, 1840 to 1900, ed. Michael L. Krenn (New York: Garland, 1998), pp. 241-53. Included in chap. 6 of 1973-1.

1959

1. “Sinister History.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (16 January 1959): 2B. Review of History of the Progressive Party by Amos Pinchot.
2. “The Wrong Sort of Conservatism.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (16 July 1959): 2B. Review of In Defense of Yesterday: James M. Beck and the Politics of Conservatism, 1861-1936 by Morton Keller.
3. “Brief for the New Deal: Professor’s Uncritical Work on F.D.R.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (9 August 1959): 4E. Review of The Roosevelt Revolution by Mario Einaudi.
4. “Turning Point in Modern History: World War I’s Importance Seen in a New Light.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (13 September 1959): 4C. Review of Political Origins of the New Diplomacy by Arno J. Mayer.
5. “The Munich Analogy.” Washington Post (26 October 1959): A12. Letter to the editor criticizing Joseph Alsop’s use of the Munich analogy in discussing the Cold War.
6. “Young Man Who Dislikes Liberalism.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1 November 1959): 4B. Review of Up From Liberalism by William F. Buckley, Jr.
7. “Light on New Deal: Mr. Morgenthau’s Storehouse.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (22 November 1959): 4C. Review of From the Morgenthau Diaries by John Morton Blum.

1960

1. “More Folklore Than History.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2 February 1960): 2C. Review of Roosevelt’s Road to Russia by George N. Crocker.
2. “Our Spy.” New Republic (30 May 1960): 24. Letter to the editor about the U-2 spy plane incident.
3. “Biography in the Modern Mode.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (10 June 1960): 2B. Review of LaGuardia: A Fighter Against His Times, 1882-1933 by Arthur Mann.
4. “A History of the 1920s: Oversimplified Conclusions.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (11 September 1960): 4C. Review of Republican Ascendancy by John D. Hicks.

1961

1. “Revolution and Democracy: The Russian Revolution and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1917-1919.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1961. Citation from Dissertation Abstracts 22 (May 1962): 3995.
2. “Introduction.” In American Notes by Charles Dickens, pp. i, vii-xii. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1961. Reprint, Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1968.
3. S.v. “Campaign of 1940”; “Campaign of 1944”; “Campaign of 1948”; “Campaign of 1952”; “Campaign of 1956”; “Campaign of 1960”; “Congress, the United States” (revision of 1940 entry); “Democratic Party”; “Elections” (revision of 1940 entry); “G.I.; G.I. Bill of Rights”; “McCarthy-Army Dispute”; “Republican Party”; “Third Term Doctrine”; “Truman Doctrine”; “War Crimes Trials.” In Dictionary of American History, vol. 6 (Supplement One), ed. J.G.E. Hopkins and Wayne Andrews. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1961. (Vols. 1-5 of this work were published in 1940.)  Reprint, s.v. “Campaign of 1940”; “Campaign of 1944”; “Campaign of 1948”; “Campaign of 1952”; “Campaign of 1956”; “Campaign of 1960” (preceding entries s.v. “Campaigns, Presidential”); “GI Bill of Rights”; “Truman Doctrine”; “War Crimes Trials,” Dictionary of American History, ed. Louise Bilebof Ketz et al. (rev. ed.; 8 vols.; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1976).
4. “The Virtuous Must Compete.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (8 January 1961): 2F. Letter to the editor about U.S.-Soviet negotiations on nuclear testing.
5. “Herman Kahn on Thermonuclear War: What Price Survival?” Massachusetts Review 2 (Spring 1961): 574-80. Essay-review of On Thermonuclear War by Herman Kahn.
6. “What Happened to Liberalism.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (17 June 1961): 4A. Review of The Crossroads of Liberalism: Croly, Weyl, Lippmann and the Progressive Era, 1900-1925 by Charles Forcey.
7. “Is Conservatism the Real Enemy?” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (2 August 1961): 2C. Review of The Futilitarian Society by William J. Newman.
8. Letter to the editor. Commentary (September 1961): 247-48. Comment on the treatment of Herman Kahn’s On Thermonuclear War in H. Stuart Hughes, “The Strategy of Deterrence,” Commentary (March 1961): 185-92.
9. “‘Neighborly’ Battles Would Kill Many.” Daily Iowan (17 October 1961): 2. Letter to the editor about the debate over civil defense.
10. “Letter to Editor Says Civil Defense Weakens Incentive to Negotiate.” Iowa City Press-Citizen (23 November 1961).
11. Review of Gifford Pinchot: Bull Moose Progressive by Martin L. Fausold. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (28 November 1961): 2B.

1962

1. The American Liberals and the Russian Revolution. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962. Paperback edition, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972.

[Reviewed or discussed in English Historical Review 81 (April 1966): 431-32 (A.E. Campbell); Pacific Northwest Quarterly 61 (October 1970): 217-18 (Charles E. Timberlake); ); New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44 (Louis Menand); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears).]

2. “Radicals of the Thirties: Their Literature, not Politics, Seen as Real Issue.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (11 February 1962): 4D. Review of Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism by Daniel Aaron.
3. “A Profession Views Itself.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (15 May 1962): 2B. Review of The Education of Historians in the United States by Dexter Perkins, John L. Snell, and the Committee on Graduate Education of the American Historical Association.
4. “American Intervention in Siberia: A Reinterpretation.” Political Science Quarterly 77 (June 1962): 205-23. Reprinted in “American Intervention: A Deluded Effort,” American Intervention in the Russian Civil War, ed. Betty Miller Unterberger (Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1969), pp. 73-82 (without footnotes).
5. Review of American History: Recent Interpretations, ed. Abraham S. Eisenstadt. Political Science Quarterly 77 (September 1962): 478-79.
6. “Some Disconcerting Views on SUI Fallout Shelters.” Daily Iowan (3 October 1962): 2. Letter to the editor about a proposed civil defense program for the campus of the University of Iowa.
7. “Gasping for Air.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (21 October 1962): 4C. Review of Roosevelt and Howe by Alfred B. Rollins, Jr.
8. “New Book Analyzes Freud’s Theories on Man in Society.” Daily Iowan (26 October  1962): 3. Review of Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry Into Freud by Herbert Marcuse.
9. “Drucker Makes ‘Old’ Point.” Daily Iowan (26 October 1962): 14 [in a separate advertising section for the Hawkeye Bookstore, with its own pagination]. Review of Concept of the Corporation by Peter F. Drucker.
10. “Letter to Editor Reflects on Causes of Cuban Situation.” Iowa City Press-Citizen (26 October 1962). About the Cuban missile crisis.
11. “The Historian as Diplomat.” Nation (24 November 1962): 348-53. Included in chap. 13 of 1973-1.

1963

1. “Editor’s Introduction.” In The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt, ed. Lasch, pp. vii-xv. New York: Hastings House, 1963. Lasch abridged Roosevelt’s four-volume work for this one-volume edition (see pp. xiv-xv). 
2. “New HUAC Debate.” Iowa Defender (21 January 1963): 1-2.
3. “AAUP Reports Are Contradictory on Shapiro.” Iowa Defender (21 February 1963): 1, 3. Excerpts reprinted in “Academic Freedom or Not?—SUIowan Reviews Issues in Shapiro’s Dismissal,” Daily Iowan (20 February 1963): 2.
4. “Two ‘Kindred Spirits’: Sorority and Family in New England, 1839-1846.” New England Quarterly 36 (March 1963): 23-41. Coauthor with William R. Taylor. Included in chap. 2 of 1973-1.
5. Letter to the editor. American Historical Review 68 (April 1963): 910-11. Comment on Norman Pollack, “The Myth of Populist Anti-Semitism,” American Historical Review 68 (October 1962): 76-80.
6. “Arthur Schlesinger and ‘Pragmatic Liberalism,’ Part 1: The Cult of the Hard Boiled.” Iowa Defender (29 April 1963): 1, 8.
7. “Arthur Schlesinger and ‘Pragmatic Liberalism,’ Part 2: The Uses of Realism.” Iowa Defender (6 May 1963): 1, 4.
8. “Arthur Schlesinger and ‘Pragmatic Liberalism,’ Part 3: The Historian As Politician.” Iowa Defender (13 May 1963): 1, 4.
9. “Letters.” Iowa Defender (20 May 1963): 2. Exchange with Steve Tudor about 1963-7.
10. “America’s Place in the Sun.” Nation (22 June 1963): 530-32. Review of Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History: A Reinterpretation by Frederick Merk.
11. “Understanding the Russians and Understanding Ourselves.” Teachers College Record 65 (November 1963): 157-63.

1964

1. Entry in Harvard College Class of 1954, Decennial Report, p. 135. Cambridge, Mass., 1964.
2. Review of The Populist Response to Industrial America: Midwestern Populist Thought by Norman Pollack and The Tolerant Populists: Kansas Populism and Nativism by Walter T.K. Nugent. Pacific Historical Review 33 (1964): 69-73.
3. “The Bored.” Progressive (September 1964): 49-50. Review of Abundance for What? and Other Essays by David Riesman.

1965

1. The New Radicalism in America, 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type. New York: Knopf, 1965. Paperback editions, New York: Vintage Books, 1967; New York: Norton, 1986.

[Reviewed or discussed in Kirkus Reviews (15 March 1965): 352 (Wilfrid Mellers); Library Journal (15 May 1965): 2258 (David Coolev): Newsweek (17 May 1965): 110; New York Review of Books (20 May 1965): 3-4 (Alfred Kazin); Nation (24 May 1965): 564-66 (Edward T. Chase); New York Times (8 June 1965): 39 (Charles Poore); Saturday Review (12 June 1965): 42 (August Heckscher); New York Times Book Review (13 June 1965): 6, 37-38 (Daniel Aaron); Reporter (17 June 1965): 40-43 (Peter Filene); Washington Post Book World (27 June 1965): 6, 18 (Benjamim DeMott); Christian Science Monitor (1 July 1965): 11 (Elizabeth Janeway); National Catholic Reporter (7 July 1965): 9 (Michele Murray); New Yorker (31 July 1965): 80; New Leader (16 August 1965): 14-16 (John P. Roche); Commonweal (3 September 1965): 623-27 (Michael Harrington); National Review (7 September 1965): 780-83 (E.H. Wall); Choice (October 1965): 524-25; Commentary (October 1965): 85-88 (William Phillips); Social Education 29 (October 1965): 405-407 (Marshall W. Fishwick); Dissent (January-February 1966): 100-103 (Stephan Thernstrom); Studies on the Left (January-February 1966): 64-69 (Carl Resek); Intercollegiate Review (January-February 1966): 251-60 (Eliseo Vivas); Journal of Southern History 32 (February 1966): 131; Spectator (25 February 1966): 230 (D.W. Brogan); Sunday Times (27 February 1966) (Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.); Observer (27 February 1966): 27 (John Gross); Listener (3 March 1966): 323 (Max Beloff); Sunday Telegraph (6 March 1966): 9 (Andrew Sinclair); Guardian Weekly (24 March 1966): 10 (Jonathan Steele); New Statesman (25 March 1966): 434 (Karl Miller); Economist (26 March 1966): 1241-42; Times Literary Supplement (7 April 1966): 291; Partisan Review 33 (Summer 1966): 463-66 (Norman Birnbaum); Encounter (September 1966): 74-78 (Marcus Cunliffe); Journal of American History 53 (March 1967): 870-72 (Arthur Mann); Pacific Northwest Quarterly  60 (January 1969): 17-24 (Herbert Shapiro); Women’s Studies 1 (1972): 139-42 (Linda Gordon, Persis Hunt, Elizabeth Pleck, Marcia Scott, and Rochelle Ziegler); Reviews in American History 8 (September 1980): 285-95 (Fred Siegel); Contemporary Review (February 1987): 111 (Esmond Wright); ); New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44 (Louis Menand); Reviews in American History 23 (March 1995): 176-91 (Robert B. Westbrook); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears).]

2. “Introduction.” In The Social Thought of Jane Addams, ed. Lasch, pp. xiii-xxvii. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. Reprint, New York: Irvington, 1982. A collection of Addams’s writings; Lasch also prepared a chronology, a bibliography, an editor’s note, substantive headnotes for the 21 selections, and explanatory footnotes throughout the volume.
3. “Viet Nam: Why We Can’t Get Out.” Iowa Defender (22 March 1965): 1.
4. “Says Wilson Is the One Out of Step.” Des Moines Register (3 May 1965): 12. Letter to the editor about public opinion and the war in Vietnam.
5. “Herbert Croly’s America.” New York Review of Books (1 July 1965): 18-19. Essay-review of The Promise of American Life by Herbert Croly, ed. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr..
6. “The Magazines of Dissent Thrive on Unpopularity.” New York Times Magazine (18 July 1965): 10-11, 33-35.
7. “The Unthinkable Target.” Nation (16 August 1965): 74-75, 88. Coauthor with Alan B. Spitzer. Excerpts reprinted in “The Unthinkable Target—Bombing of Viet Cities Is Moral Issue,” Daily Iowan (15 October 1965): 2.
8. “The Explosion That Froze the World.” Nation (6 September 1965): 123-24. Review of Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam by Gar Alperovitz.
9. “Radicalism in America.” New Leader (13 September 1965): 33. Exchange with John P. Roche about Roche’s review of 1965-1, which appeared in the New Leader (16 August 1965): 14-16.
10. Contribution to symposium “On Vietnam.” Partisan Review 32, no. 4 (1965): 630-32.
11. “Democratic Vistas.” New York Review of Books (30 September 1965): 4-6. Essay-review of The Crossroads Papers, ed. Hans J. Morgenthau, and Seeds of Liberation, ed. Paul Goodman.
12. Review of Five Novelists of the Progressive Era by Robert W. Schneider. Mid-America 47 (October 1965): 308-10.
13. “Poverty Study Muddled by Wealth of Ideas.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (3 October 1965): 4K. Review of The Accidental Century by Michael Harrington.
14. “New Curriculum for Teach-Ins.” Nation (18 October 1965): 239-41. Excerpts reprinted in “New Curriculum for the Teach-Ins,” Teach-Ins: U.S.A.: Reports, Opinions, Documents, ed. Louis Menashe and Ronald Radosh (New York: Praeger, 1967), pp. 306-309.
15. “A Man and His Magazine.” New York Times Book Review (24 October 1965): 50. Review of Oswald Garrison Villard: Pacifist at War by Michael Wreszin and One Hundred Years of The Nation, ed. Henry M. Christman.
16. “Getting Out of Power.” Commentary (November 1965): 116-20. Review of People or Personnel: Decentralizing and the Mixed System by Paul Goodman.
17. “The Banality of Liberalism.” New York Review of Books (11 November 1965). 36-37. Exchange with Paul Seabury, John F. Withey, and E. Jeffrey Ludwig about 1965-11.
18.  “Walter Lippmann Today.” New York Review of Books (9 December 1965): 24-26. Essay-review of Conversations with Walter Lippmann.

1966

1. “Divorce American Style.” New York Review of Books (17 February 1966): 3-4. Essay-review of The Complete Guide to Divorce by Samuel G. Kling; Your Marriage and the Law by Harriet F. Pilpel and Theodora Zavin; Wives’ Legal Rights by Richard T. Gallen; and The Road to Reno: A History of Divorce in the United States by Nelson Manfred Blake.
2. “Divorce American Style.” New York Review of Books (31 March 1966): 30. Exchange with Herbert Meltzer about 1966-1.
3. “Feminist Ideology.” Commentary (April 1966): 100-106. Review of The Better Half: The Emancipation of the American Woman by Andrew Sinclair.
4. “A Profusion of Information.” Nation (4 April 1966): 397-98. Review of Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes by Jacques Ellul. Reprinted in Ethics, Morality and The Media: Reflections on American Culture, ed. Lee Thayer, Richard L. Johannesen, and Hanno Hardt (New York: Hastings House, 1980), pp. 228-31.
5. “Radical Movements in the U.S.A.—A Survey.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch (4 September 1966): 4B. Review of Radicalism in America by Sidney Lens and The New Radicals: A Report With Documents by Paul Jacobs and Saul Landau.
6. “UnAmerican Activities.” New York Review of Books (6 October 1966): 16-19. Essay-review of Liberals and Communism: The “Red Decade” Revisited by Frank A. Warren III and The Communist Controversy in Washington from the New Deal to McCarthy by Earl Latham.
7. “What About the Intellectuals?” New York Times Book Review (16 October 1966): 58. Review of Steady Work: Essays in the Politics of Democratic Radicalism, 1953-1966 by Irving Howe.
8. “Divorce and the Family in America.” Atlantic Monthly (November 1966): 57-61. Available on the World Wide Web at http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/family/divorce.htm and at http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/docs/divorceinam.htm ; reprinted in Proceedings of the Special Joint Committee of the [Canadian] Senate and House of Commons on Divorce, no. 17 (21 February 1967): 979-84. Included in chap. 3 of 1973-1.
9. “What Shall A Moral Man Do?” Nation (28 November 1966): 581-86. Essay-review of The Psychology of Power by R.V. Sampson.
10. “The Decline of Dissent.” Katallagete 1 (Winter 1966-67): 11-17. Included in chap. 1 of 1969-1.
11. “Liberals and Communism.” New York Review of Books (29 December 1966): 26. Exchange with Frank A. Warren about 1966-6.

1967

1. Review of Slave Society in the British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century by Elsa V. Goveia. William and Mary Quarterly 24 (January 1967): 142-44.
2. “Burned Over Utopia.” New York Review of Books (26 January 1967): 15-18. Essay-review of The Mormon Establishment by Wallace Turner; The Latter-day Saints: The Mormons Yesterday and Today by Robert Mullen; and Nauvoo: Kingdom of the Mississippi by Robert Bruce Flanders. Included in chap. 5 of 1973-1.
3. “Journey to Hanoi.” New York Times Book Review (23 April 1967): 16, 18. Review of The Other Side by Staughton Lynd and Thomas Hayden.
4. “Emancipated Women.” New York Review of Books (13 July 1967): 28-32. Essay-review of Vessel of Wrath: The Life and Times of Carry Nation by Robert Lewis Taylor; Vicky: A Biography of Victoria C. Woodhull by M.M. Marberry; Mrs. Satan: The Incredible Saga of Victoria C. Woodhull by Johanna Johnston; Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery by Robert Peel; and The Puritan Ethic and Woman Suffrage by Alan P. Grimes. Included in chap. 4 of 1973-1.
5. “The Cultural Cold War.” Nation (11 September 1967). 198-212. See 1968-1.
6. “A Definite Set of Principles.” New York Times Book Review (24 September 1967): 6, 44. Review of The Concept of Ideology and Other Essays by George Lichtheim.
7. “Same Old New Class.” New York Review of Books (28 September 1967): 12-14. Essay-review of Power in America: The Politics of the New Class by David T. Bazelon.
8. “Lasky-Lasch Exchange.” Nation (2 October 1967): 309. Exchange with Melvin J. Lasky about 1967-5.
9. “The Lynd Case.” Nation (16 October 1967): 354. Letter to the editor by Lasch and Alfred F. Young, urging support of Staughton Lynd, who had been denied employment at an Illinois state college because of his antiwar activities.
10. “Politics as Ritual.” Progressive (November 1967): 44-46. Review of Anti-Politics in America: Reflections on the Anti-Political Temper and Its Distortions of the Democratic Processes by John H. Bunzel.
11. “Resistance to Slavery.” Civil War History 13 (December 1967): 315-29. Coauthor with George M. Fredrickson. Reprinted in New Perspectives on the American Past, ed. Stanley N. Katz and Stanley I. Kutler (2 vols.; Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1969), 1:523-38; The Debate over Slavery: Stanley Elkins and His Critics, ed. Ann J. Lane (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1971), pp. 223-44; American Slavery: The Question of Resistance, ed. John H. Bracey, Jr., August Meier, and Elliott Rudwick (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1971), pp. 179-92; Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in Black Studies #BC-96 (Indianapolis, n.d.). 
12. “Same Old New Class.” New York Review of Books (7 December 1967): 41-42. Exchange with Walter A. Weisskopf about 1967-7.

1968

1. “The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.” In Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History, ed. Barton J. Bernstein, pp. 322-59. New York: Pantheon, 1968. Revised version of 1967-5; portions of both 1967-5 and 1968-1 included in chap. 3 of 1969-1.
2. “The Cold War, Revisited and Re-Visioned.” New York Times Magazine (14 January 1968): 26-27, 44-51, 54, 59. Portions drawn from 1965-8. Reprinted in Northwestern Report 3, no. 3 (1968): 2-9; From Coalition to Confrontation: Readings on Cold War Origins, ed. John Gimbel and John C. Hennessy (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1972), pp. 227-40. Included in chap. 14 of 1973-1.
3. “The Trouble with Black Power.” New York Review of Books (29 February 1968): 4-14. Essay-review of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America by Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton; Black Power and Urban Unrest by Nathan Wright, Jr.; Black Power/White Resistance: Notes on the New Civil War by Fred Powledge; White Reflections on Black Power by Charles E. Fager; and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse. Reprinted in Americans from Africa, ed. Peter I. Rose (2 vols.; New York: Atherton Press, 1970), 2:267-91; excerpts reprinted in Minority Responses: Comparative Views of Reactions to Subordination, ed. Minako Kurokawa (New York: Random House, 1970), pp. 341-51. Included in chap. 4 of 1969-1.
4. Contribution to symposium on “Prospects for American Radicalism.” New Politics 7 (Spring 1968): 6-8.
5. “Culture of Poverty.” New York Review of Books (9 May 1968): 40-42. Exchange with Todd Gitlin and J.A. Raffaele about 1968-3.
6. “The New Politics: 1968 and After.” New York Review of Books (11 July 1968): 3-6. Essay-review of The Radical Liberal: New Man in American Politics by Arnold S. Kaufman and Toward a Democratic Left: A Radical Program for a New Majority by Michael Harrington. Included in chap. 5 of 1969-1.
7. “Whatever Happened to Socialism?” New York Review of Books (12 September 1968): 14-23. Essay-review of The Decline of Socialism in America, 1912-1925 by James Weinstein; Critics of Society: Radical Thought in North America by T.B. Bottomore; and Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America by James Burkhart Gilbert. Included in chap. 2 of 1969-1.
8. “The Future of Radicalism.” New York Review of Books (12 September 1968): 42-43. Exchange with Staughton Lynd about 1968-6.
9. “Where Do We Go From Here?” New York Review of Books (10 October 1968): 4-5. Included in chap. 5 of 1969-1.
10. “‘In’ Game.” New York Review of Books (5 December 1968): 50-51. Exchange with George Fischer and Milton Mankoff about 1968-9.

1969

1. The Agony of the American Left. New York: Knopf, 1969. Paperback edition, New York: Vintage Books, 1969. Includes material, some of it revised, from 1966-10, 1967-5 and 1968-1, 1968-3, 1968-6, 1968-7, and 1968-9, as well as previously unpublished material.

[Reviewed or discussed in Publishers Weekly (6 January 1969): 51; Kirkus Reviews (15 January 1969): 81-82; Library Journal (15 March 1969): 1125-26 (David Cooley); Washington Post Book World (16 March 1969): 7 (Malcolm Muggeridge); New York Times (21 March 1969): 45 (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt); New York Times Book Review (23 March 1969): 1, 34-35 (Martin Duberman); Newsweek (24 March 1969): 104-106 (Robert A. Gross); Christian Century (26 March 1969): 419; New Yorker (3 April 1969): 148; New Republic (12 April 1969): 25-27 (Michael Harrington); New Leader (14 April 1969): 22-24 (Robert Lekachman); National Review (20 May 1969): 501 (P.P. Ardery, Jr.); Booklist (15 June 1969): 1148; Yale Review 58 (Summer 1969): 584-89 (Carl Cohen); Nation (23 June 1969): 797-99 (John McDermott); Critic (June-July 1969): 74-76 (James O’Gara); Commentary (July 1969): 59-63 (Dennis H. Wrong); Christian Century (23 July 1969): 995-96 (William Hamilton); Saturday Review (26 July 1969): 25-27 (William Parente); Progressive (August 1969): 29-31 (Otis L. Graham, Jr.); Publisher’s Weekly (4 August 1969): 51; Christian Science Monitor (18 September 1969): 8 (C. Michael Curtis); Journal of American History 56 (December 1969): 719-20 (David A. Shannon); Choice  (January 1970); Social Education 34 (April 1970): 487 (Willard L. Hogeboom); Listener (7 May 1970): 620-21 (David Caute); Economist (23 May 1970): 52-53 (Andre Deutsch); New Statesman (29 May 1970): 773-74 (David Marquand); Political Science Quarterly 85 (June 1970): 301-303 (Henry S. Kariel); Observer (28 June 1970): 28 (David Watt); Guardian Weekly (4 July 1970): 18 (Jonathan Steele); Polity 2, no. 3 (1970): 380-91 (Henry W. Ehrmann); Journal of American Studies 5, no. 3 (1971): 314-15 (Barry Sheerman); Social Studies 62 (February 1971): 86-87 (Rodney P. Carlisle); Books and Bookmen 18 (May 1973): 84-85 (John Lloyd); Reviews in American History 8 (September 1980): 285-95 (Fred Siegel); ); New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44 (Louis Menand); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears); http://www.longpauses.com/agony_of_american.htm (19 January 2003).]

2. Entry in Harvard College Class of 1954, 15th Anniversary Report, p. 145. Cambridge, Mass., 1969.
3. “Student Revolts: Is There an Historical Theme?” Chicago Daily News (8 March 1969): 10 [in “Panorama” section]. Review of The Conflict of Generations: The Character and Significance of Student Movements by Lewis S. Feuer.
4. “Reason Appears to Be Helpless In the Face of Violence.” New York Times Magazine (4 May 1969): 136. Contribution to symposium on “When, If Ever, Do You Call In the Cops?”
5. Review of Gandhi’s Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence by Erik H. Erikson. New York Times Book Review (14 September 1969): 1, 22-23. Available on the World Wide Web at http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/08/22/specials/erikson-gandhi.html; reprinted in “Gandhi and Non-Violence,” Dialogue 3 (1970): 89-92. Included in chap. 9 of 1973-1.
6. “Toward a New Program for the University.” TriQuarterly, no. 16 (Fall 1969): 197-207. Reprinted in TriQuarterly, no. 63 (1985): 141-51.
7. “The Education and the University We Need Now.” New York Review of Books (9 October 1969): 21-27. Coauthor with Eugene Genovese.
8. Contribution to “Intellectuals Divided Over Effectiveness of Vietnam Moratorium in Promoting Peace.” New York Times (17 October 1969): 20. Brief statement drawn from an interview by the New York Times.
9. “Galbraith and His Diplomatic Travels and Trials.” Chicago Daily News (18-19 October 1969): 9 [in “Panorama” section]. Review of Ambassador’s Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years by John Kenneth Galbraith.
10. “Protest and Revolution: Their Causes and Origins and Their Relative Impact.” Chicago Sunday Sun-Times Book Week (16 November 1969): 2. Review of The Age of Protest: Dissent and Rebellion in the Twentieth Century by Norman F. Cantor.

1970

1. “Introduction.” In Cold War Essays by Gar Alperovitz, pp. 7-23. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970. Portions drawn from 1968-2.
2. “Christopher Lasch.” In Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel, pp. 338-41. New York: Pantheon, 1970. Interview by Studs Terkel.
3. Excerpts from interviews by William Braden. In The Age of Aquarius: Technology and the Cultural Revolution by William Braden, pp. 15, 56, 127, 130-32, 143, 192-93, 213, 217-19, 257-58. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.
4. “Educational Structures and Cultural Fragmentation.” In Confrontation and Learned Societies, ed. John Voss and Paul L. Ward, pp. 105-26. New York: New York University Press, 1970. Passages included in chap. 16 of 1973-1.
5. “The Social Thought of Jacques Ellul.” Katallagete 2 (Winter-Spring 1970): 21-30. Also published in Introducing Jacques Ellul, ed. James Y. Holloway (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1970), pp. 63-90. Included in chap. 17 of 1973-1.
6. “Comment.” Journal of Human Relations 18, no. 2 (1970): 902-906. Comment on Kenneth R. Calkins, “German Social Democratic Opposition to World War I,” Journal of Human Relations 18, no. 2 (1970): 875-93; and Charles Chatfield, “World War I and the Liberal Pacifist in the United States,” later published in American Historical Review 75 (December 1970): 1920-37.

1971

1. S.v. “Avery, Rachel G. Foster”; “Belmont, Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt”; “Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston”; “Dennett, Mary Coffin Ware”; “Yarros, Rachelle Slobodinsky.” In Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. Edward T. James, Janet Wilson James, and Paul S. Boyer. 3 vols.; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971.
2. “From Culture to Politics.” In The Revival of American Socialism, ed. George Fischer, pp. 217-24. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
3. “Epilogue.” In The New American Revolution, ed. Roderick Aya and Norman Miller, pp. 318-34. New York: Free Press, 1971. Included in chap. 8 of 1973-1.
4. “The Gates of Eden.” Yale Law Journal 80 (March 1971): 865-70. Review of The Greening of America by Charles A. Reich. Included in chap. 12 of 1973-1.
5. Review of The Pentagon Papers as published by the New York Times. Manchester Guardian (5 August 1971): 12.
6. “Change Without Politics.” Manchester Guardian (9 September 1971): 9. Review of The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point by Philip E. Slater. Included in chap. 12 of 1973-1.
7. “Can the Left Rise Again?” New York Review of Books (21 October 1971): 36-48. Essay-review of The Radical Probe: The Logic of Student Rebellion by Michael W. Miles; Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics by Michael Walzer; Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky; Reveille for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky; and After the Revolution? Authority in a Good Society by Robert A. Dahl. Included in chap. 10 of 1973-1.
8. “The Making of the War Class.” Columbia Forum n.s. 1 (Winter 1971): 2-11. Included in chap. 15 of 1973-1.

1972

1. “Toward a Theory of Post-Industrial Society.” In Politics in the Post-Welfare State, ed. N. Donald Hancock and Gideon Sjoberg, pp. 36-50. New York: Columbia University Press, 1972.
2. S.v. “New Left”; “Radicalism.” In The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book, 1972. Warren Silver, managing editor of The World Book Encyclopedia, has confirmed that these entries first appeared under Lasch’s name in the 1972 edition of this encyclopedia (Warren Silver to Robert Cummings, 17 July 2000).
3. “The Good Old Days.” New York Review of Books (10 February 1972): 25-27. Essay-review of Facing Life: Youth and the Family in American History by Oscar Handlin and Mary F. Handlin. Passages included in chap. 16 of 1973-1.
4. “Examining the War Class: An Exchange.” Columbia Forum n.s. 1 (Spring 1972): 49-52. Exchange with Paul Seabury, Joseph Anthony Raffaele, and Morris Wattenberg about 1971-8. Portions included in bibliographical note for chap. 15 of 1973-1.
5. “Birth, Death and Technology: The Limits of Cultural Laissez-Faire.” Hastings Center Report 2 (June 1972): 1-4. Included in chap. 18 of 1973-1.
6. Contribution to symposium “On the New Cultural Conservatism.” Partisan Review 39, no. 3 (1972): 431-33. Portions included in bibliographical note for chap. 12 of 1973-1.
7. “Populism, Socialism, and McGovernism.” New York Review of Books (20 July 1972): 15-20. Essay-review of A Populist Manifesto: The Making of a New Majority by Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, and Socialism by Michael Harrington. Included in chap. 11 of 1973-1.
8. “The Election II.” New York Review of Books (2 November 1972): 6-8.

1973

1. The World of Nations: Reflections on American History, Politics, and Culture. New York: Knopf, 1973. Paperback edition, New York: Vintage Books, 1974. Includes material, some of it revised, from 1958-2, 1962-10, 1963-4, 1966-8, 1967-2, 1967-4, 1968-2, 1969-5, 1970-4, 1970-5, 1971-3, 1971-4, 1971-6, 1971-7, 1971-8, 1972-3, 1972-4, 1972-5, 1972-6, and 1972-7, as well as previously unpublished material.

[Reviewed or discussed in Kirkus Reviews (1 July 1973): 733; Publisher’s Weekly (23 July 1973): 66; Library Journal (August 1973): 2308 (J. Allan Ferguson); Saturday Review/World (25 September 1973): 35 (Ed Grossman); New York Times Book Review (30 September 1973): 31-34 (Sheldon S. Wolin); Washington Post Book World (2 December 1973): 5 (William Pfaff); Choice (January 1974): 1778; Progressive (January 1974): 66; Village Voice (14 February 1974): 23 (John M. Taylor); Historian 36 (May 1974): 571 (Athan Theoharis); Society (July/August 1974): 87-90 (Jay A. Weinstein); Pacific Historical Review 43 (August 1974): 412-13 (Klaus J. Hansen); Perspectives in Religious Studies 10 (Spring 1983): 15-32 (Guy B. Hammond); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears).]

2. “Foreword.” In The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It by Richard Hofstadter, pp. vii-xix. 25th anniversary ed.; New York: Knopf, 1973. Also published, in slightly different form, as “On Richard Hofstadter,” New York Review of Books (8 March 1973): 7-13.
3. “The Jeffersonian Legacy.” In Thomas Jefferson: The Man, His World, His Influence, ed. Lally Weymouth, pp. 229-45. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1973.
4. Contribution to “Professing the Truth: An Exchange.” Columbia Forum n.s. 2 (Winter 1973): 40-41. Comment on Robert Gorham Davis, “The Professor’s Lie,” Columbia Forum n.s. 1 (Fall 1972): 6-15.
5. Contribution to symposium on “Nixon, the Great Society, and the Future of Social Policy.” Commentary (May 1973): 45-47.
6. “Inequality and Education.” New York Review of Books (17 May 1973): 19-25. Essay-review of Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America by Christopher Jencks et al.; Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools by Michael B. Katz; The Great School Legend: A Revisionist Interpretation of American Public Education by Colin Greer; and Education and the Rise of the Corporate State by Joel H. Spring.
7. “Better Than to Burn: An Historical Note on Marriage.” Columbia Forum n.s. 2 (Fall 1973): 18-25. Condensed in “To Live Unmarried,” Intellectual Digest (June 1974): 32-33.
8. “Take Me to Your Leader.” New York Review of Books (18 October 1973): 63-66. Essay-review of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting by Daniel Bell.

1974

1. Entry in Harvard College Class of 1954, 20th Anniversary Report, p. 138. Cambridge, Mass., 1974.
2. “Learning from the Thirties.” Working Papers 1 (Winter 1974): 45-47. Review of Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years by Richard H. Pells.
3. “Marriage: Of Two Minds.” Columbia Forum n.s. 3 (Winter 1974): 47-48. Exchange with Bonnie Wheeler and Howard H. Schless about 1973-7.
4. “An Exchange on Post-Industrial Society.” New York Review of Books (24 January 1974): 49-52. Exchange with Daniel Bell about 1973-8.
5. Review of The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception by Michel Foucault. New York Times Book Review (24 February 1974): 6. Available on the World Wide Web at http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/12/17/specials/foucault-clinic.html.
6. “Paranoid Presidency.” Center Magazine 7 (March-April 1974): 23-31.
7. “The Suppression of Clandestine Marriage in England: The Marriage Act of 1753.” Salmagundi, no. 26 (Spring 1974): 90-109. Included in chap. 3 of 1997-1.
8. “Freud and Women.” New York Review of Books (3 October 1974): 12-17. Essay-review of Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing, and Women by Juliet Mitchell; Women and Analysis, ed. Jean Strouse; and Psychoanalysis and Women, ed. Jean Baker Miller.
9. “An Exchange on Freud and Women.” New York Review of Books (12 December 1974): 50-53. Exchange with Jean Strouse, Marcia Cavell, and Jean Baker Miller about 1974-8.

1975

1. “The Presidential Mystique: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon.” In Men, Women, and Issues in American History, ed. Howard H. Quint and Milton Cantor, vol. 2, pp. 282-300. Homewood, Ill.: Dorsey Press, 1975.
2. “Introduction.” In Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing by Russell Jacoby, pp. vii-xv, 153-56. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975.
3. “‘Selfish Women’: The Campaign to Save the American Family, 1890-1920.” Columbia Forum n.s. 4 (Spring 1975): 24-31.
4. Contribution to symposium on “The Meaning of Vietnam.” New York Review of Books (12 June 1975): 28.
5. “The Democratization of Culture: A Reappraisal.” Change 7 (Summer 1975): 14-23.
6. “The State of the Humanities: A Symposium.” Change 7 (Summer 1975): 40-69. Excerpts from conference on “The Future of the Humanities”; participants, including Lasch, discussed his paper (1975-5), along with papers by Leo Marx and Gerald Holton.
7. “America Today: An Exchange.” Partisan Review 42, no. 3 (1975): 361-73. Coauthor with Norman Birnbaum. Reprinted in A Partisan Century: Political Writings from Partisan Review, ed. Edith Kurzweil (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 268-80.
8. Contribution to symposium on “America Now: A Failure of Nerve?” Commentary (July 1975): 57-58.
9. “Psychiatry: Call It Teaching or Call It Treatment.” Hastings Center Report 5 (August 1975): 15-17. Review of The Death of Psychiatry by E. Fuller Torrey and Models of Madness, Models of Medicine by Miriam Siegler and Humphry Osmond.
10. “The Ideology of Sexual Emancipation and Its Domestication, 1900-1935.” Katallagete 5 (Fall 1975): 19-24.
11. “Introduction: 10 Years of Salmagundi.” Salmagundi, no. 31-32 (Fall 1975-Winter 1976): 3-9.
12. “‘Assassination Itself Has Become a Spectacle’.” New York Times (12 October 1975): sec. 4, p. 13.
13. “The Family and History.” New York Review of Books (13 November 1975): 33-38. Essay-review of The American Family in Social-Historical Perspective, ed. Michael Gordon; The World We Have Lost by Peter Laslett; World Revolution and Family Patterns by William J. Goode; Household and Family in Past Time, ed. Peter Laslett and Richard Wall; The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays, ed. Theodore K. Rabb and Robert I. Rotberg; Journal of Marriage and the Family 35 (August 1973), special issue on the history of the family; The Wish to Be Free: Society, Psyche, and Value Change by Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt; and The Making of the Modern Family by Edward Shorter.
14. “The Emotions of Family Life.” New York Review of Books (27 November 1975): 37-42. Essay-review of The Wish to Be Free: Society, Psyche, and Value Change by Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt.
15. “What the Doctor Ordered.” New York Review of Books (11 December 1975): 50-54. Essay-review of The Making of the Modern Family by Edward Shorter.

1976

1. “Why Were Eleanor and Franklin So Unsuited?” New York Times (11 January 1976): sec. 2, pp. 1, 27.
2. Review of Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years by J. Anthony Lukas. New York Times Book Review (25 January 1976): 23-26.
3. “Sacrificing Freud.” New York Times Magazine (22 February 1976): 11, 70-72.
4. “Family Theory.” New York Review of Books (15 April 1976): 40-41. Exchange with Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt about 1975-14.
5. “The Family as a Haven in a Heartless World.” Salmagundi, no. 35 (Fall 1976): 42-55. Reprinted in The Pushcart Prize, II: Best of the Small Presses, ed. Bill Henderson (Yonkers, N.Y.: Pushcart Press, 1977), pp. 194-208.
6. “The Narcissist Society.” New York Review of Books (30 September 1976): 5-13. Essay-review of Decadence: Radical Nostalgia, Narcissism, and Decline in the Seventies by Jim Hougan; Growing (Up) at Thirty-Seven by Jerry Rubin; Three Journeys: An Automythology by Paul Zweig; The Awareness Trap: Self-Absorption Instead of Social Change by Edwin Schur; and Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism by Otto F. Kernberg.
7. “Planned Obsolescence.” New York Review of Books (28 October 1976): 7, 10. Review of Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life by Gail Sheehy.

1977

1. Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged. New York: Basic Books, 1977.  Paperback editions, New York: Basic Books, 1979; New York: Norton, 1995.

[Reviewed or discussed in Publisher’s Weekly (19 September 1977): 135; Kirkus Reviews (1 October 1977): 1078; New York Times (28 November 1977): 29 (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt); Atlantic Monthly (December 1977): 110 (C.M.C.); New Republic (3 December 1977): 24 (David Hackett Fischer); Library Journal (15 January 1978): 151 (Phyllis R. Poses); New York Times Book Review (15 January 1978): 6-7, 20 (Marshall Berman); Newsweek (30 January 1978): 70-72 (Kenneth L. Woodward with Rachel Mark); Chronicle of Higher Education (6 February 1978): 15-16 (Richard W. Fox); New Yorker (6 February 1978): 111-12; Booklist (15 February 1978): 965; National Review (17 February 1978): 220-22 (George Gilder); New York Review of Books (23 February 1978): 37-39 (David Brion Davis); Washington Monthly (March 1978): 63-67 (Nicholas Lemann); Commentary (March 1978): 49-56 (Nathan Glazer); Journal of Social History 11 (Spring 1978): 426-30 (Peter N. Stearns); New York Times Book Review (26 March 1978): 3, 20-21 (Richard Locke); Choice (April 1978): 299-300; Sociology 5 (May 1978): 100-101 (Dennis C. Scheck); Social Policy 9 (May/June 1978): 58-60 (Carole Joffe); Progressive (June 1978): 43-44 (Peter Skerry); Modern Age 22 (Summer 1978): 329-31 (Robert M.Crunden); American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 48 (July 1978): 553-56 (Edgar Z. Friedenberg); Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 438 (July 1978): 158 (James R. Bell); Critic (July 1978): 7; New Society (27 July 1978): 199-200 (Juliet Mitchell); Canadian Forum (August 1978): 27-28 (Thelma McCormack); Contemporary Psychology 23 (September 1978): 667 (John A. Clausen); Reviews in American History 6 (September 1978): 293-98 (Daniel T. Rodgers); Social Service Review 52 (September 1978): 503-504 (Jerry Seelig); Theory and Society 6 (September 1978): 279-92 (Adrienne Harris and Edward Shorter); School Review 87 (November 1978): 79-82 (Robert L. Church); New German Critique 13 (Winter 1978): 35-57 (Jessica Benjamin); Contemporary Sociology 8 (March 1979): 179-87 (Gerald M. Platt); Social Forces 57 (March 1979): 1017-18 (Gay C. Kitson); Commonweal (16 March 1979): 155-56 (Jean Bethke Elshtain); Pastoral Psychology 27 (Spring 1979): 211-12 (William B. Oglesby, Jr.); Society (March/April 1979): 98-99 (Lillian B. Rubin); Harvard Educational Review 49 (May 1979): 231-39 (Bella H. Rosenberg); Science Books & Films 15 (May 1979): 8 (Jules Arginteanu); Social Casework 60 (May 1979): 314-15 (Robert M. Rice); Journal of American History 66 (June 1979): 214-15 (Tamara K. Hareven); Queen’s Quarterly 86 (Spring 1979): 152-54 (Deborah Gorham); History of Education Quarterly 19 (Spring 1979): 125-41 (Berenice M. Fisher); Dissent (Summer 1979): 308-14 (Dennis H. Wrong); Social Development Issues 3 (Summer 1979): 84-86 (David Gil); Social History 4 (October 1979): 509-16 (John W. Scott); Teaching Sociology 7 (October 1979): 89-98 (State University of New York Cortland Theoretical Community); Cornell Journal of Social Relations 14 (Winter 1979): 233-36 (Michael S. Kimmel); Ohio History 88 (Winter 1979): 121-22 (Thomas E. Williams); Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 28, no. 1 (1980): 232-34 (Jules Glenn); Christian Scholar’s Review 10, no. 1 (1980): 62-64 (John Scanzoni); International Journal of Contemporary Sociology 17 (January-April 1980): 176-81 (Albert James Bergesen); Religious Studies Review 6 (April 1980): 127 (Lewis R. Rambo); Social Science History 4 (May 1980): 251-60 (Charles Tilly and Louise A. Tilly); Contemporary Crises 4 (July 1980): 349-51 (Linda C. Majka); Reviews in American History 8 (September 1980): 285-95 (Fred Siegel);  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 10 (Winter 1980): 562-65 (Peter Laslett); Theory and Society 10 (May 1981): 359-85 and 407-11 (Abram de Swaan); Theory and Society 10 (May 1981): 387-405 (John Alt); New Left Review, no. 135 (September-October 1982): 35-48 (Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh); Thought 58 (March 1983): 106-107 (Joseph P. Fitzpatrick, S.J.); Perspectives in Religious Studies 10 (Spring 1983): 15-32 (Guy B. Hammond); Sociological Spectrum 3 (July-December 1983): 295-316 (Larry Baron); Acta Sociologica 27, no. 3 (1984): 239-47 (Erik Grønseth); Social Research 53 (Spring 1986): 3-22 (Lawrence Birken); Political Theory 15 (February 1987): 127-37 (Kent M. Brudney); British Journal of Sociology 39 (December 1988): 545-53 (Miriam Dixon); Quarterly Journal of Ideology 15, no. 3-4 (1991-92): 29-49 (Roger Neustadter); ); New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44 (Louis Menand); American Studies 33 (Fall 1992): 113-20 (Steven Watts); Political Science Reviewer 22 (1993): 232-54 (Russell Nieli); Dissent (Summer 1995): 407-14 (George Scialabba); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears); Alberta Report 24 (29 September 1997): 38-39 (Mike Maunder); Ecologist 27 (September/October 1997): 204-206 (Grover Foley); Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 18 (June 1998): 160-73 (Peter Goldstone and Robert Leone). See also Feminist Studies 3, no. 3-4 (1976): 159-72 (Barbara J. Harris), which discusses articles (1975-13, 1975-14, and 1975-15) incorporated into 1977-1; Feminist Studies 4, no. 1 (1978): 43-67 (Wini Breines, Margaret Cerullo, and Judith Stacey), which discusses articles (1975-13, 1975-14, 1975-15, 1976-5, and 1977-4) incorporated into 1977-1.]

2. Foreword.” In America by Design: Science, Technology, and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism by David F. Noble, pp. xi-xiii. New York: Knopf, 1977.
3. “Preface.” In The Radical Will: Randolph Bourne, Selected Writings 1911-1918, ed. Olaf Hansen, pp. 9-14. New York: Urizen Books, 1977.
4. “The Waning of Private Life.” Salmagundi, no. 36 (Winter 1977): 3-15.
5. “The Narcissistic Personality of Our Time.” Partisan Review 44, no. 1 (1977): 9-19.
6. “The Undermining of the Family’s Capacity to Provide for Itself.” Washington Post (10 February 1977): D.C. 2 (“District Weekly” section). Portions drawn from 1977-5. The article appeared in many newspapers, under a variety of titles, as part of a syndicated “Courses by Newspaper” series on “Moral Choices in Contemporary Society” sponsored by the University of California, San Diego, and edited by Philip Rieff.
7. Review of Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties by Morris Dickstein. New York Times Book Review (13 March 1977): 1, 30.
8. “The Corruption of Sports.” New York Review of Books (28 April 1977): 24-30. Reprinted in American Sport Culture: The Humanistic Dimensions, ed. Wiley Lee Umphlett (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1985), pp. 50-67.
9. “Aging in a Culture Without a Future.” Hastings Center Report 7 (August 1977): 42-44. Review of No More Dying: The Conquest of Aging and the Extension of Human Life by Joel Kurtzman and Phillip Gordon, and Prolongevity by Albert Rosenfeld.
10. “Corrupt Sports: An Exchange.” New York Review of Books (29 September 1977): 39-40. Exchange with Eric Foner, Mark Naison, and Paul K. Hoch about 1977-8.
11. “Authority and the Family—I: Permissiveness, and Growing State Control.” New York Times (14 November 1977): 33.
12. “Authority and the Family—II: Controlling Society a New Way.” New York Times (15 November 1977): 41.
13. “The Siege of the Family.” New York Review of Books (24 November 1977): 15-18. Essay-review of All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure by Kenneth Keniston and the Carnegie Council on Children.

1978

1. “Fans and Fantasies.” Psychology Today (January 1978): 94-95.
2. “A Dangerous Instrument.” New York Times Book Review (1 January 1978): 8, 24. Review of The Social Impact of the Telephone, ed. Ithiel de Sola Pool.
3.  “To Be Young, Rich, and Entitled.” Psychology Today (March 1978): 124-26. Review of Privileged Ones: The Well-Off and the Rich in America by Robert Coles.
4. “The Flight from Feeling: Sociopsychology of Sexual Conflict.” Marxist Perspectives 1 (Spring 1978): 74-94.
5. “Recovering Reality.” Salmagundi, no. 42 (Summer-Fall 1978): 44-47. Comment on Gerald Graff, “The Politics of Anti-Realism,” Salmagundi, no. 42 (Summer-Fall 1978): 4-30.
6. Review of The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone. New Republic (8 and 15 July 1978): 34-37.
7. “William Appleman Williams on American History.” Marxist Perspectives 1 (Fall 1978): 118-26.
8. “Talking About Sex: The History of a Compulsion.” Psychology Today (November 1978): 147-50, 158. Review of The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction by Michel Foucault.
9. “America Between Covers.” Nation (2 December 1978): 615-19. An essay about the books of Carey McWilliams.

1979

1. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. New York: Norton, copyright 1979 [title page has 1978 date]. Paperback editions, New York: Warner Books, 1979; New York: Warner Books, 1980; New York: Norton, 1991.

[Reviewed or discussed in Kirkus Reviews (15 November 1978): 1290; Library Journal (15 November 1978): 2323; Publishers Weekly (27 November 1978): 54; New York Times (9 December 1978): 21 (Anatole Broyard); Esquire (2 January 1979): 24-25 (Charlie Haas); Time (8 January 1979): 72, 77 (R.Z. Sheppard); New York Times Book Review (14 January 1979): 1, 26-27 (Frank Kermode); Chronicle of Higher Education (22 January 1979): R11-R12 (Allen Lacy); Newsweek (22 January 1979): 75 (Valerie Lloyd); Wall Street Journal (26 January 1979): 14 (Andrew Hacker); Nation (27 January 1979): 91-92 (Jackson Lears); Washington Post Book World (4 February 1979): 1, 3 (William McPherson); New Republic (17 February 1979): 28-32 (Robert Boyers); Toronto Globe and Mail (17 February 1979): 43 (Norman Snider); Maclean’s (19 February 1979): 50 (Edward Shorter); America (24 February 1979): 140 (William D. Miller); New Leader (26 February 1979): 13-14 (Daphne Merkin); Booklist (1 March 1979): 1022; Critic (15 March 1979): 7; Best Sellers (April 1979): 27-28 (E.E. Rehmus); Commentary (April 1979): 82-84 (Kenneth S. Lynn); Commonweal (13 April 1979): 220-22 (George W. Shea); Books in Canada (May 1979): 32 (Morris Wolfe); Choice (May 1979): 422; Change (May-June 1979): 60-62 (Joyce Bermel); Canadian Forum (June-July 1979): 30-31 (Bradley Adams); Progressive (June 1979): 53-54 (Jonathan Cobb); Dissent (Summer 1979): 308-14 (Dennis H. Wrong); Telos, no. 40 (Summer 1979): 187-98 (Robert Ehrlich); Harper’s (July 1979): 74-77 (Paul Zweig); New Yorker (27 August 1979): 98, 101-105 (Robert Coles); History: Reviews of New Books 7 (September 1979): 217 (Roderick Nash); Contemporary Sociology 85 (September 1979): 766 (Judith Richman); Salmagundi, no. 46 (Fall 1979): 166-73 (Michael Fischer); Salmagundi, no. 46 (Fall 1979): 173-85 (Larry D. Nachman); Salmagundi, no. 46 (Fall 1979): 185-93 (Janice Doane and Devon Leigh Hodges); Social Casework 60 (October 1979): 505 (Aileen F. Hart); American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 49 (October 1979): 709-14 (Simon L. Auster); Psychology Today (October 1979): 14, 17 (Roberta Satow); Publisher’s Weekly (8 October 1979): 69; Christian Century (14 November 1979): 1135-37 (Peter R. Monkres); Reviews in American History 7 (December 1979): 452-58 (Michael Kammen); Science Books & Films 15 (December 1979): 137 (Allan I. Decker); Georgia Review 33 (Winter 1979): 961-64 (Frederick Ferré); Christian Scholar’s Review 10, no. 1 (1980): 62-64 (John Scanzoni); Berkeley Journal of Sociology 24-25 (1980): 341-55 (Ken Tucker and Andrew Treno); Christopher Street (January 1980): 14-19 (Lawrence Mass); Theology Today 36 (January 1980): 569-70 (Julian N. Hartt); Spectator (1 March 1980): 19 (Nicholas von Hoffman); Guardian Weekly (2 March 1980): 21 (Theodore Zeldin); Sunday Times (2 March 1980) (Alan Ryan); Observer (9 March 1980): 38 (Peter Conrad); New Statesman (21 March 1980): 442 (Helen McNeil); Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 4 (Spring 1980): 88-92 (Brian Caterino); Times Educational Supplement (28 March 1980): 30 (Marcus Cunliffe); Religious Studies Review 6 (April 1980): 127 (Lewis R. Rambo); Theory and Society 10 (May 1981): 359-85 and 407-11 (Abram de Swaan); Theory and Society 10 (May 1981): 387-405 (John Alt); Dialectical Anthropology 5 (May 1980): 63-73 (Wolf-Dieter Narr); Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 44 (May 1980): 314-16 (John J. Fitzpatrick); Journal of the American Academy of Religion 48 (June 1980): 311-12 (William C. Shepherd); New Society (19 June 1980): 309 (Juliet Mitchell); Times Higher Education Supplement (20 June 1980) (Peter Marris); Journal of Popular Culture 14 (Summer 1980): 155-59 (Jack Nachbar); Religion in Life 49 (Summer 1980): 211-20 (L. Shannon Jung); Telos, no. 44 (Summer 1980): 49-125 (John Alt and Frank Hearn, Russell Jacoby, Stanley Aronowitz, Stuart Ewen, Joel Kovel, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Paul Piccone, with reply by Lasch [= 1980-11]); Encounter (July 1980): 40-42 (Malcolm Bradbury); Times Literary Supplement (4 July 1980): 759 (Galen Strawson); London Review of Books (17 July—6 August 1980): 3 (Bernard Williams); South African Journal of Sociology 11 (September 1980): 102-103 (Richard A. Wright); Reviews in American History 8 (September 1980): 285-95 (Fred Siegel); Queen’s Quarterly 87 (Autumn 1980): 532-34 (Stephen A. Black); Socialist Review, no. 53 (September/October 1980): 77-104 (Stephanie Engel); Modern Age 24 (Winter 1980): 86-87 (George McKenna); Policy Review, no. 11 (Winter 1980): 148-53 (Terry Eastland); Journal of Psychology and Theology 8 (Winter 1980): 340-41 (Francis H. Touchet); Centennial Review 25 (Spring 1981): 169-84 (James Seaton); Journal of Religion and Health 20 (Spring 1981): 77-79 (Russell Burck); Partisan Review 48, no. 2 (1981): 285-88 (Roberta Satow); Canadian Journal of Political Science 14 (June 1981): 377-96 (Philip Abbott); Journal of Psychohistory 9 (Summer 1981): 135-41 (Barbara Finkelstein and Remi Clignet); Religious Studies Review 7 (July 1981): 193-97 (Peter Homans); Psychiatry and Social Science 1, no. 3 (1981): 207-10 (Nils Johan Lavik); Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 30, no. 1 (1982): 277-80 (Arnold D. Richards and Stephen L. Richards); Psychohistory Review 10 (Spring/Summer 1982): 185-202 (Bruce Mazlish); Journal of Religion 62 (April 1982): 186-91 (Peter Homans); Psychoanalytic Review 69 (Summer 1982): 283-95, 303  (Colleen D. Clements); Psychoanalytic Review 69 (Summer 1982): 296-302 (Roberta Satow); International Social Science Review 57 (Summer 1982): 179 (Richard A. Wright); New Left Review, no. 135 (September-October 1982): 35-48 (Michèle Barrett and Mary McIntosh); Journal of Psychohistory 9 (Winter 1982): 355-73 (Daniel Dervin); Perspectives in Religious Studies 10 (Spring 1983): 15-32 (Guy B. Hammond); Katallagete 8 (Spring 1983): 11-22 (Jim Gardner); Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 16 (Summer 1983): 128-30 (L. Marlene Payne); Sociological Spectrum 3 (July-December 1983): 295-316 (Larry Baron); Teachers College Record 85 (Fall 1983): 57-72 (H. Svi Shapiro); Journal of Social History 17 (Winter 1983): 199-220 (Jesse F. Battan): Psychohistory Review 13, no. 1 (1984): 30-39 (Lawrence E. Cahoone); Social Text 4, no. 3 (1985): 113-23 (Juan Flores); Social Research 53 (Spring 1986): 3-22 (Lawrence Birken); Political Theory 15 (February 1987): 127-37 (Kent M. Brudney); Educational Theory 37 (Summer 1987): 229-50 (William B. Stanley); Journal of American Culture 10 (Winter 1987): 59-67 (Bernard J. Gallagher); British Journal of Sociology 39 (December 1988): 545-53 (Miriam Dixon); Midwest Quarterly 30 (Spring 1989): 308-23 (Arthur A. Molitierno); Soundings 72 (Summer/Fall 1989): 477-500 (John McGowan); Raritan 11 (Fall 1991): 128-41 (Mark Edmundson); Quarterly Journal of Ideology 15, no. 3-4 (1991-92): 29-49 (Roger Neustadter); ); New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44 (Louis Menand); American Studies 33 (Fall 1992): 113-20 (Steven Watts); Political Science Reviewer 22 (1993): 232-54 (Russell Nieli); Dissent (Summer 1995): 407-14 (George Scialabba); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears); Journal of Educational Thought 30 (August 1996): 159-70 (Francis J. Ryan).]

2. “Preface to the Paperback Edition.” In paperback edition of Haven in a Heartless World, pp. xiii-xvii. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
3. Entry in Harvard College Class of 1954, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report, pp. 543-44. Cambridge, Mass., 1979.
4. Review of On Becoming Carl Rogers by Howard Kirschenbaum. New Republic (31 March 1979): 30-31.
5. Review of The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America by Philip Greven. William and Mary Quarterly 36 (April 1979): 290-91.
6. “Gratification Now Is the Slogan of the ’70s, Laments a Historian.” People (9 July 1979): 34-36. Interview by Barbara Rowes.
7. Review of The Shaping of a Behaviorist by B.F. Skinner. New Republic (4 and 11 August 1979): 36-38.
8. “Politics and Social Theory: A Reply to the Critics.” Salmagundi, no. 46 (Fall 1979): 194-202. Response to Michael Fischer, “Criticizing Capitalist America”; Larry D. Nachman, “The Solitude of the Heart: Personality and Democratic Culture”; Janice Doane and Devon Leigh Hodges, “Mobilizing the Ranks of Reality,” all in “A Symposium: Christopher Lasch and the Culture of Narcissism,” Salmagundi, no. 46 (Fall 1979): 166-193. Entire symposium reprinted in The Salmagundi Reader, ed. Robert Boyers and Peggy Boyers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983), pp. 152-88 (Lasch’s reply, pp. 180-88).

1980

1. “Foreword.” In trade paperback edition of The Culture of Narcissism, pp. xv-xxii. New York: Warner Books, 1980.
2. Contribution to mini-symposium on “What Is the Meaning of the Superbowl?” In These Times (23-29 January 1980): 9.
3.  “Historic Subversion of the Family.” Psychology Today (March 1980): 109-11. Review of The Policing of Families by Jacques Donzelot.
4. “Modernism, Politics, and Philip Rahv.” Partisan Review 47, no. 2 (1980): 183-94.
5. Review of The Powers That Be: Processes of Ruling-Class Domination in America by G. William Domhoff. American Historical Review 85 (April 1980): 482-83.
6.  “TABA Winners.” New York Times Book Review (25 May 1980): 3, 15. Statement declining the American Book Award for 1979-1.
7. Contribution to “Guides for the Perplexed.” New York Times Book Review (8 June 1980): 40-41. Summer reading suggestions: Lasch picked and thematically linked Labor and Monopoly Capital by Harry Braverman, Democratic Promise by Lawrence Goodwyn, and The Policing of Families by Jacques Donzelot.
8. “Life in the Therapeutic State.” New York Review of Books (12 June 1980): 24-32. Essay-review of At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present by Carl N. Degler; The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction by Michel Foucault; and The Policing of Families by Jacques Donzelot. Included in chap. 9 of 1997-1.
9. Review of Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America by David J. Rothman. New Republic (14 June 1980): 29-30.
10. “Lewis Mumford and the Myth of the Machine.” Salmagundi, no. 49 (Summer 1980): 4-28. Reprinted in The Salmagundi Reader, ed. Robert Boyers and Peggy Boyers (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983), pp. 127-51.
11. “Narcissism and the Problem of ‘Morale’.” Telos, no. 44 (Summer 1980): 122-25. Contribution to, and comment on some of the papers in, “Symposium on Narcissism,” Telos, no. 44 (Summer 1980): 49-125.
12. “Alienation à la Mode.” Nation (5 July 1980): 21-22. Review of The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s by Malcolm Cowley.
13. “The Social Role of the Educator: An Interview with Christopher Lasch.” Antaeus Report 1 (Fall 1980): 2-4. Interview by editors of Antaeus Report.
14. “Response: History in America.” Salmagundi, no. 50-51 (Fall 1980-Winter 1981): 181-92. Panel discussion in response to John Lukacs, “American History? American History,” Salmagundi, no. 50-51 (Fall 1980-Winter 1981): 172-80; discussants included Lasch, Henry Pachter, Robert Orrill, John Lukacs, Dwight Macdonald, Gerald Graff, and audience members.
15. “Response: American Social Science.” Salmagundi, no. 50-51 (Fall 1980-Winter 1981): 225-33. Panel discussion in response to Larry D. Nachman, “Truth and the Democratic Ethos,” Salmagundi, no. 50-51 (Fall 1980-Winter 1981): 213-24; discussants included Lasch, Robert Boyers, Larry Nachman, John Gagnon, and Jean Bethke Elshtain.
16. “Democracy vs. Therapy.” New York Review of Books (18 December 1980): 67-68. Exchange with Joshua Miller about 1980-8.

1981

1. “The Conservative ‘Backlash’ and the Cultural Civil War.” In Neo-Conservatism: Social and Religious Phenomenon, ed. Gregory Baum, pp. 8-11. New York: Seabury Press, 1981.
2. “Democracy and the ‘Crisis of Confidence’.” democracy 1 (January 1981): 25-40.
3. “The Freudian Left and Cultural Revolution.” New Left Review, no. 129 (September-October 1981): 23-34. Also published as The Freudian Left and the Theory of Cultural Revolution (Freud Memorial Lecture; University College London, 1982), which is reprinted in Dimensions of Psychoanalysis, ed. Joseph Sandler (Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1989), pp. 123-38. Also published as The Freudian Left and the Theory of Cultural Revolution (Harvey Wish Memorial Lecture Series, IV; Department of History, Case Western Reserve University, n.d.—Lasch delivered the lecture on this occasion on 8 October 1981).
4. “Mass Culture Reconsidered.” democracy 1 (October 1981): 7-22.
5. “Archie Bunker and the Liberal Mind.” Channels of Communications 1 (October-November 1981): 34-35, 63. Reprinted in Fast Forward: The New Television and American Society, ed. Les Brown and Savannah Waring Walker (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1983), pp. 165-70; Impact of Mass Media: Current Issues, ed. Ray Eldon Hiebert and Carol Reuss (White Plains, N.Y.: Longman, 1985), pp. 468-72.
6. “Happy Endings.” New York Review of Books (3 December 1981): 22-24. Essay-review of New Rules: Searching for Self-Fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down by Daniel Yankelovich.

1982

1. “The Bill of Rights and the Therapeutic State.” In The Future of Our Liberties: Perspectives on the Bill of Rights, ed. Stephen C. Halpern, pp. 195-203. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.
2. “On Medicalization and the Triumph of the Therapeutic.” In The Use and Abuse of Medicine, ed. Marten W. de Vries, Robert L. Berg, and Mack Lipkin, Jr., pp. 36-41. New York: Praeger, 1982.
3. “Popular Culture and the Illusion of Choice.” democracy 2 (April 1982): 88-92. Reply to Herbert Gans, “Culture, Community, and Equality,” democracy 2 (April 1982): 81-87—a critique of 1981-4.
4. “Why ‘the Survival Mentality’ Is Rife in America: A Conversation with Christopher Lasch.” U.S. News and World Report (17 May 1982): 59-60. Interview by Alvin P. Sanoff.
5. “The Cultural Civil War and the Crisis of Faith.” Katallagete 8 (Summer 1982): 12-18.
6. “The Prospects for Social Democracy.” democracy 2 (July 1982): 28-32. Comment on Walter Dean Burnham, “The Eclipse of the Democratic Party,” democracy 2 (July 1982): 7-17.

1983

1. “Liberalism in Retreat.” In Liberalism Reconsidered, ed. Douglas MacLean and Claudia Mills, pp. 105-16. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Allanheld, 1983.
2. “A Society without Fathers: Cooperative Commonwealth or Harmonious Ant-Heap?” In Face to Face: Fathers, Mothers, Masters, Monsters—Essays for a Nonsexist Future, ed. Meg McGavran Murray, pp. 3-19. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983.
3. “The Modernist Myth of the Future.” Revue Française d'Études Américaines, no. 16 (February 1983): 31-43.
4. “Doris Lessing and the Technology of Survival.” democracy 3 (Spring 1983): 28-36.
5. “Introduction.” Salmagundi, no. 60 (Spring-Summer 1983): iv-xvi. Introduction to a series of articles on Hannah Arendt.
6. “Malign Neglect.” New Republic (8 August 1983): 32-34. Review of Children Without Childhood by Marie Winn and Our Endangered Children: Growing Up in a Changing World by Vance Packard.
7. “The Life of Kennedy’s Death.” Harper’s (October 1983): 32-40.

1984

1. The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times. New York: Norton, 1984. Paperback edition, New York: Norton, 1985.

[Reviewed or discussed in Kirkus Reviews (1 August 1984): 735; Publishers Weekly (10 August 1984): 69; Booklist (1 October 1984): 170; Library Journal (1 October 1984): 1839 (William Abrams); New York Times Book Review (28 October 1984): 7 (Dennis H. Wrong); Atlantic Monthly (November 1984): 141-48 (Mark Crispin Miller); Washington Monthly  (November 1984): 58 (Charles Euchner); Newsweek (5 November 1984): 88 (Jim Miller); Vogue (November 1984): 266, 271 (Gail Sheehy); Toronto Globe and Mail (1 December 1984): 28 (Bronwyn Drainie); New Republic (10 December 1984): 90-96  (Charles Krauthammer); New Leader (10 December 1984): 20-21  (Philip Greven, Jr.); Washington Post Book World (16 December 1984): 6 (Jack Beatty); Telos, no. 62 (Winter 1984-85): 223-30 (Robert Ehrlich); Best Sellers (January 1985): 392 (Joseph D. Ayd, S.J.); Library Journal (January 1985): 51; Psychology Today (January 1985): 65-66 (Scott Haas); Christian Science Monitor (2 January 1985): 21-22 (Kenneth Harper); Commentary (February 1985): 70-72 (Larry D. Nachman); Nation (2 February 1985): 118-20 (Thomas DePietro); Commonweal (8 February 1985): 86-88 (Richard Wightman Fox); Progressive (April 1985): 43 (Alan Wolfe); Listener (16 May 1985): 26 (Mary Warnock); New Society (7 June 1985): 358 (Michael Ignatieff); Guardian (19 June 1985): 13 (Ann Shearer); Guardian (3 July 1985) (Nicci Gerrard); New Statesman (5 July 1985): 28 (James Bentley); Canadian Forum (August 1985): 35-36 (Harry Wagschal); Free Associations 3 (September 1985): 43-64 (Barry Richards); Times Literary Supplement (13 September 1985): 1006 (Anthony Clare); This World, no. 12 (Fall 1985): 133-35 (David Heim); Social Text 4, no. 3 (1985): 113-23 (Juan Flores); Pastoral Psychology 34 (Winter 1985): 132-33 (Edward V. Stein); Educational Studies 17 (Spring 1986): 154-60 (Richard A. Brosio); Southern Humanities Review 20 (Spring 1986): 181-83 (Joseph Voelker); Social Research 53 (Spring 1986): 3-22 (Lawrence Birken); Journal of Mind and Behavior 7 (Winter 1986): 119-23 (Marc F. Bertonasco); Political Theory 15 (February 1987): 127-37 (Kent M. Brudney); American Journal of Sociology 92 (March 1987): 1233-34 (Albert Bergesen); Educational Theory 37 (Summer 1987): 229-50 (William B.); British Journal of Sociology 39 (December 1988): 545-53 (Miriam Dixon); ); New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44 (Louis Menand); American Studies 33 (Fall 1992): 113-20 (Steven Watts); Political Science Reviewer 22 (1993): 232-54 (Russell Nieli); Dissent (Summer 1995): 407-14 (George Scialabba); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears); Ecologist 27 (September/October 1997): 204-206 (Grover Foley).]

2. “Family and Authority.” In Capitalism and Infancy: Essays on Psychoanalysis and Politics, ed. Barry Richards, pp. 22-37. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1984. Consists of a portion of 1981-3 read by Lasch to a seminar of the Radical Science Journal Collective in 1981, along with excerpts from the seminar discussion.
3. “The Degradation of Work and the Apotheosis of Art.” Harper’s (February 1984): 40-45. Also published, in slightly different form, in The Future of Musical Education in America: Proceedings of the July 1983 Conference In Memoriam Howard Hanson, ed. Donald J. Shetler (Rochester: Eastman School of Music Press, 1984), pp. 11-19.
4. “The Great American Variety Show.” New York Review of Books (2 February 1984): 36-40. Essay-review of America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the Sixties and Seventies by Peter Clecak.
5. “Experiment and Resistance.” Times Literary Supplement (25 May 1984): 574. Review of The Divided Mind: Ideology and Imagination in America, 1898-1917 by Peter Conn.
6. “Chip of Fools.” New Republic (13 and 20 August 1984): 25-28. Review of The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit by Sherry Turkle and Turing’s Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age by J. David Bolter.
7. “Wasted Minds: Report Promotes Dual Educational System, Says Lasch.” In These Times (19-25 September 1984): 10. Interview by John B. Judis.
8. “1984: Are We There?” Salmagundi, no. 65 (Fall 1984): 51-62. Reprinted in “1984: Are We There?” Katallagete 9 (Summer 1985): 28-32; excerpts reprinted in “1984: Are We There Yet?” In These Times (19 December 1984—8 January 1985): 12-13, 22, portions of which are reprinted in In These Times (18 February 2002): 25.
9.  “Theology and Politics: Reflections on Ellul’s Living Faith.” Katallagete 9 (Fall-Winter 1984): 10-15.
10. “The Politics of Nostalgia.” Harper’s (November 1984): 65-70.
11. “A Survey of Snobbery.” Vogue (November 1984): 279-80. Review of Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu.
12. “Advertising and Our Discontents.” Adweek (3 December 1984): F.34-F.36. Interview by Mark Crispin Miller.

1985

1. “Introduction to the Second Edition.” In Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History by Norman O. Brown, pp. vii-xiii. 2nd ed.; Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1985.
2. “Introduction.” In The Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Malady of the Ideal by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, pp. ix-xvi. New York: Norton, 1985.
3. “‘Excellence’ in Education: Old Refrain or New Departure?” Issues in Education 3 (Summer 1985): 1-12. Condensed in “Education as Public Ritual,” Education Digest 51 (March 1986): 2-5.
4. “The Search for Meaning in a Narcissistic Age.” In These Times (26 June—9 July 1985): 18-19. Essay-review of Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life by Robert N. Bellah et al.
5. “Historical Sociology and the Myth of Maturity: Norbert Elias’s ‘Very Simple Formula’.” Theory and Society 14 (1985): 705-20. Essay-review of The Civilizing Process: The History of Manners and State Formation and Civilization, both by Norbert Elias.

1986

1. Review of The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s by Richard H. Pells. Journal of American History 72 (March 1986): 991-92.
2. “A Typology of Intellectuals: I. The Feminist Subject.” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 27-32. Comment on Jean Bethke Elshtain, “The New Feminist Scholarship,” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 3-26.
3. “The New Feminist Intellectual: A Discussion.” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 33-43. Discussion among Lasch, Renata Adler, Jean Bethke Elshtain, and others.
4. “A Typology of Intellectuals: II. The Example of C. Wright Mills.” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 102-107. Comment on Jim Miller, “Democracy and the Intellectual: C. Wright Mills Reconsidered,” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 82-101.
5. “A Typology of Intellectuals: III. Melanie Klein, Psychoanalysis, and the Revival of Public Philosophy.” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 204-13. Comment on Phyllis Grosskurth, “Melanie Klein: Creative Intellectual of Psychoanalysis,” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 196-203.
6. “Psychoanalysis and Politics: A Discussion.” Salmagundi, no. 70-71 (Spring-Summer 1986): 214-16. Discussion among Lasch, Phyllis Grosskurth, and others.
7. “The Communitarian Critique of Liberalism.” Soundings 69 (Spring-Summer 1986): 60-76.
8. “Reinhold Niebuhr: Pilgrims’ Progressive.” In These Times (26 March—1 April 1986): 12-13. Review of Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography by Richard Wightman Fox.
9. “Beating the Retreat into Private Life.” Listener (27 March 1986): 20-21. Discussion among Lasch, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Michael Ignatieff.
10. Review of The Rise and Decline of Western Liberalism by Anthony Arblaster. American Historical Review 91 (June 1986): 635.
11. “What’s Wrong with the Right.” Tikkun 1, no. 1 (1986): 23-29. Edited version reprinted in “Making America Feel Good About Itself,” New Statesman (29 August 1986): 15-17; excerpts reprinted in “‘Traditional Values’: Left, Right, and Wrong,” Harper’s (September 1986): 13-16.
12. “Technological Limits.” Technology Review 89 (August-September 1986): 76-77. Review of The Whale and the Reactor by Langdon Winner.
13. “The Children of Narcissus.” Rochester Review (Fall 1986): 12-15. Reprinted in Design for Arts in Education 88 (May-June 1987): 45-48; excerpts reprinted in “Tearing at Childhood,” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (3 January 1987): 1C, 8C.
14. “Why the Left Has No Future.” Tikkun 1, no. 2 (1986): 92-97. Response to two critiques of 1986-11: Richard Lichtman, “A Socialist Response to Lasch,” and Lillian Rubin, “A Feminist Response to Lasch,” both in Tikkun 1, no. 2 (1986): 85-91.
15. Review of American Culture and Society Since the 1930s by Christopher Brookeman. American Historical Review 91 (October 1986): 1013-14.
16. “The Infantile Illusion of Omnipotence and the Modern Ideology of Science: Notes on Gnosticism.” New Oxford Review (October 1986): 14-18.
17. “The Politics of Limits.” Daily Telegraph (16 December 1986): 16.

1987

1. “Technology and Its Critics: The Degradation of the Practical Arts.” In Technological Change and the Transformation of America, ed. Steven E. Goldberg and Charles R. Strain, pp. 79-90. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.
2. “Un Suicidio Collettivo?” L’Espresso (22 February 1987): 111. The original manuscript in English, titled “Christopher Lasch (symposium on modernity),” is in the Lasch Papers (Box 27, Folder 11).
3. “Scientists of the Mind.” Educational Theory 37 (Spring 1987): 201-205. Essay-review of Scientists of the Mind: Intellectual Founders of Modern Psychology by Clarence J. Karier.
4. “Conscience, Reason, and Imagination: C. Wright Mills and the Life of the Mind.” Social Science 72 (Spring 1987): 81-85. Portions drawn from 1986-2 and 1986-4.
5. “Fraternalist Manifesto.” Harper’s (April 1987): 17-20.
6. “The Paranoid Presidency.” Center Magazine 20 (July-August 1987): 42-48. Slightly revised version of 1974-6.
7. “Soul of a New Age.” Omni (October 1987): 78-80, 82, 84-85, 180.
8. Contribution to “Symposium on Humane Socialism and Traditional Conservatism.” New Oxford Review (October 1987): 25-26.

1988

1. S.v. “Left wing”; “New Left”; “Radicalism.” In The World Book Encyclopedia. Chicago: World Book, 1988 [copyright 1987]. The “New Left” and “Radicalism” entries are revisions of 1972-2. The entry for “Left wing” is a revision by Lasch of an entry previously signed by William Ebenstein.
2. “Oggi resta soltanto Solidarnosc.” L’Espresso (18 January 1988): 103-104. Contribution to a special issue, titled “Una Storia Aperta,.” devoted to the legacy of the 1960s. The original manuscript in English, titled “Symposium on the Sixties,” is in the Lasch Papers (Box 27, Folder 13).
3. Review of Higher Learning by Derek Bok. Academe 74 (January-February 1988): 46-47.
4.  “Politics American Style.” Salmagundi, no. 78-79 (Spring-Summer 1988): 36-41.
5. “A Response to Joel Feinberg.” Tikkun 3, no. 3 (1988): 41-42. Comment on Joel Feinberg, “Liberalism, Community, and Tradition,” Tikkun 3, no. 3 (1988): 38-41, 116-20.
6. “Reagan’s Victims.” New York Review of Books (21 July 1988): 7-8. Review of The New Politics of Old Values by John Kenneth White.
7. “The Last Freak Show.” Omni (October 1988): 116-22, 175-76. Abbreviated version of 1989-4.
8. “A Response to Fischer.” Tikkun 3, no. 6 (1988): 72-73. Comment on Claude S. Fischer, “Finding the ‘Lost’ Community: Facts and Fictions,” Tikkun 3, no. 6 (1988): 69-72.

1989

1. “Counting by Tens.” Salmagundi, no. 81 (Winter 1989): 51-60.
2. “The Obsolescence of Left and Right: On the Exhaustion of the Idea of Progress.” New Oxford Review (April 1989): 6-15. Reprinted in The Best in Theology, Volume Four, ed. J.I. Packer and J. Isamu Yamamoto (Carol Stream, Ill.: Christianity Today, 1990), pp. 145-59.
3. “Progress: The Last Superstition.” Tikkun 4, no. 3 (1989): 27-30.
4. “Engineering the Good Life: The Search for Perfection.” This World, no. 26 (Summer 1989): 9-17.
5. “Consensus: An Academic Question?” Journal of American History 76 (September 1989): 457-59. Comment on Jonathan M. Wiener, “Radical Historians and the Crisis in American History, 1959-1980,” Journal of American History 76 (September 1989): 399-434.
6. “Orestes Brownson’s Christian Radicalism: Grasping the Universal Through the Particular.” New Oxford Review (September 1989). 4-8.
7. “The Class of ’54, Thirty-Five Years Later.” Salmagundi, no. 84 (Fall 1989): 35-40.
8. “The I’s Have It for Another Decade.” New York Times (27 December 1989): A23.

1990

1. “Politics and Morality: The Deadlock of Left and Right.” In Guaranteeing the Good Life: Medicine and the Return of Eugenics, ed. Richard John Neuhaus, pp. 52-67. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1990. See also pp. 139-56 for Lasch’s discussion of his essay with participants at a conference on the “Good Life”; for remarks by Lasch at other conference sessions, see pp. 171-72, 183, 187, 297-98, 311, 332-34, 336.
2. “An Interview with Christopher Lasch on the Social Role of the Educator.” In Voices in American Education, ed. Bernard Murchland, pp. 121-33. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Prakken Publications, 1990. Interview by Bernard Murchland. Expanded version of 1980-13 (with some deletions).
3. “The Crime of Quality Time.” New Perspectives Quarterly 7 (Winter 1990). 45-49. Interview by Nathan Gardels. Reprinted in New Perspectives Quarterly 15, no. 3 (1998): 25-31
4. “Memory and Nostalgia, Gratitude and Pathos.” Salmagundi, no. 85-86 (Winter-Spring 1990): 18-26.
5. “Dall’Età dei Lumi all’Età dei Limiti.” L’Espresso (14 January 1990): 102-103. Interview by Giovanni Forti in a special section on postmodernism.
6. “Signori si scende, è finito il progresso.” Contribution to special supplement to issue no. 11 of L’Espresso (18 March 1990): 29-31. The original manuscript in English, titled “The Impending Age of Limits,” is in the Lasch Papers (Box 28, Folder 28).
7. “Religious Contributions to Social Movements: Walter Rauschenbusch, the Social Gospel, and Its Critics.” Journal of Religious Ethics 18 (Spring 1990): 7-25.
8. “Journalism, Publicity and the Lost Art of Argument.” Gannett Center Journal 4 (Spring 1990): 1-11. Reprinted in Media Studies Journal 9 (Winter 1995): 81-91; Kettering Review (Spring 1995): 44-50; excerpts reprinted in “The Lost Art of Political Argument,” Harper’s (September 1990): 17-22; “What This Country Needs Is Less News and More Argument,” Sacramento Bee Forum (16 September 1990): 1-2; “Stop Making Sense,” NewsInc. 2 (December 1990): 23-25 (this version in turn reprinted in Impact of Mass Media: Current Issues, ed. Ray Eldon Hiebert [3rd ed; White Plains, N.Y.: Longman, 1995], pp. 101-105); “The Lost Art of Political Argument,” Utne Reader, no. 44 (March-April 1991): 72. Included in chap. 9 of 1995-1.
9. “Optimism or Hope? The Ethic of Abundance and the Ethic of Limits.” Sacred Heart University Review 10 (Spring 1990): 3-14.
10. “Conservatism against Itself.” First Things, no. 2 (April 1990): 17-23. Reprinted in Human Life Review 16 (Summer 1990): 47-61; Australia and World Affairs, no. 7 (Summer 1991): 5-17.
11. “The Culture of Narcissism Revisited.” World & I (May 1990). 511-23. Reprinted in “Afterword: The Culture of Narcissism Revisited,” paperback edition of The Culture of Narcissism (New York: Norton, 1991), pp. 237-49.
12. “The New Class Controversy.” Chronicles (June 1990). 21-25.
13. “The Costs of Our Cold War Victory.” New York Times (13 July 1990): A27.
14. Contribution to symposium on “The American 80’s: Disaster or Triumph?” Commentary (September 1990): 23-25.
15. “Academic Pseudo-Radicalism: The Charade of ‘Subversion’.” Salmagundi, no. 88-89 (Fall 1990-Winter 1991): 25-36. Included in chap. 10 of 1995-1.
16. “‘A Whole World of Heroes’.” Sojourners (October 1990): 18-19. Comment on Gar Alperovitz, “Building a Living Democracy,” Sojourners (July 1990): 11-23.
17. “The Degradation of Work, Yesterday and Today: Vital Works Reconsidered.” New Oxford Review (October 1990): 16-19. Essay on Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman.
18. “The Invasion of the Family by the Market.” World & I (November 1990): 479-89.
19.  “The Saving Remnant.” New Republic (19 November 1990): 32-36. Essay-review of The Feeling Intellect: Selected Writings by Philip Rieff. Included in chap. 12 of 1995-1.
20. “Probing Gnosticism and Its Modern Derivatives: Notes on Gnosticism—Part II.” New Oxford Review (December 1990): 4-10.

1991

1. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics. New York: Norton, 1991. Paperback edition, New York: Norton, 1991.

[Reviewed or discussed in Kirkus Reviews (15 November 1990): 1585-86: Publisher’s Weekly (23 November 1990): 53; Library Journal (December 1990): 145-46 (Jeffrey R. Herold); San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review (13 January 1991): 1, 10 (Michael Stern); New Leader (14 January 1991): 18-19 (William L. O’Neill); Booklist (15 January 1991): 986 (Eugene Sullivan); New York Times (16 January 1991): C15 (Herbert Mitgang); Newsday (20 January 1991): II-23 (Dan Cryer); Washington Post Book World (27 January 1991): 3, 7 (Noel Perrin); New York Times Book Review (27 January 1991): 1, 28 (William Julius Wilson); Los Angeles Times Book Review (27 January 1991): 2, 11 (Godfrey Hodgson); Chronicle of Higher Education (6 February 1991): A10 (Ellen K. Coughlin); Wall Street Journal (7 February 1991): A12 (Edward Rothstein); New Yorker (11 February 1991): 96; U.S. News & World Report (18 February 1991): 58-59 (Alvin P. Sanoff); Chicago Tribune (24 February 1991): sec. 14, p. 3  (Joseph Coates); World & I (March 1991): 374-77 (Paul Gottfried); New Criterion (March 1991): 9-16 (Roger Kimball); Toronto Star (2 March 1991): H13 (Edward Shorter); New York Times Book Review (3 March 1991): 30 (Karen DeCrow); Economist (16 March 1991): 89-90; National Review (18 March 1991): 58-61 (Bruce Frohnen); Dissent (Spring 1991): 305-308 (Dennis Wrong); Orbis 35 (Spring 1991): 295 (A. Garfinkle); New Republic (25 March 1991): 29-36 (Stephen Holmes); Progressive (April 1991): 40-43 (Matthew Rothschild); First Things, no. 12 (April 1991): 54-55 (Jean Bethke Elshtain); New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44 (Louis Menand); Commonweal (19 April 1991): 264-65 (Wilson Carey McWilliams); Choice (May 1991): 1554 (Milton Cantor); New Oxford Review (May 1991): 27-30 (Edward R.F. Sheehan); Social Policy 22 (Summer 1991): 53-56 (Harry C. Boyte); Public Interest, no. 104 (Summer 1991): 126-32 (Vincent J. Cannato); Commentary (July 1991): 62-64 (Mary Eberstadt); Christianity Today (22 July 1991): 58-59 (Reed Jolley); U.S. Catholic (August 1991): 48-51 (Gerald M. Costello); Ottawa Citizen (3 August 1991): H4 (David Bennett); Tikkun, 6, no. 5 (1991): 37-40 (Michael Kazin); Tikkun, 6, no. 5 (1991): 40-42 (Barbara Ehrenreich); New Statesman & Society (20 September 1991): 46-47 (David Herman); Times Literary Supplement (20 September 1991): 24 (Alan Brinkley); Cross Currents 41 (Fall 1991): 399-410 (Glenn Autschuler); Raritan 11 (Fall 1991): 128-41 (Mark Edmundson); Independent (19 October 1991): 29 (Ian McIntyre); Journal of Mississippi History 53 (November 1991): 349-50 (Lucie R. Bridgforth); Christianity and Crisis (18 November 1991): 351-54 (George Scialabba); Society (November/December 1991): 83-85 (David L. Norton); Reviews in American History 19 (December 1991): 599-603 (Benjamin DeMott); Social Science Quarterly 72 (December 1991): 844-47 (Donald K. Pickens); Salmagundi, no. 93 (Winter 1992): 82-97 (Jeffrey Isaac); Perspectives 7 (January 1992): 18-19 (Ronald A. Wells); Journal of American History 78 (March 1992): 1401-1402 (James T. Kloppenberg); Christian Century (11 March 1992): 277-82 (Richard Wightman Fox); Educational Studies 23 (Spring 1992): 121-27 (David L. Green); Perspectives on Political Science 21 (Spring 1992): 107 (Jerome J. Hanus); American Historical Review 97 (April 1992): 605 (Thomas Bender); Journal of Politics 54 (August 1992): 909-11 (Wayne Allen); Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 523 (September 1992): 236-37 (Bruce M. Stave); American Studies 33 (Fall 1992): 113-20 (Steven Watts); Political Science Reviewer 22 (1993): 232-54 (Russell Nieli); Chesterton Review 19 (February 1993): 78-84 (M.D. Aeschliman); Political Studies 42 (December 1994): 768-69 (Thomas Pantham); Alberta Report 22 (20 February 1995): 42 (Joe Woodard); Dissent (Summer 1995): 407-14 (George Scialabba); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears); Anarchist Studies 4 (March 1996): 92-93 (Sharif Gemie); American Prospect (November-December 1996): 55-56 (Alan Brinkley); Ecologist 27 (September/October 1997): 204-206 (Grover Foley); Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 18 (June 1998): 160-73 (Peter Goldstone and Robert Leone); Critical Review 13 (Winter-Spring 1999): 97-114 (Tom Hoffman).]

2. “The Sexual Division of Labor, the Decline of Civic Culture, and the Rise of the Suburbs.” In The Meaning of the Family in a Free Society, ed. W. Lawson Taitte, pp. 131-60. Dallas: University of Texas at Dallas, 1991. Included in chap. 5 of 1997-1.
3. “The End of Social Theory?” Psychohistory Review 20, no. 1 (1991): 51-55. Contribution to a symposium on History and Theory After the Fall: An Essay on Interpretation by Fred Weinstein.
4. “The Spirit of Modern Science: Notes on Gnosticism—Part III.” New Oxford Review (January-February 1991): 10-15.
5. “Who Owes What to Whom?” Harper’s (February 1991): 43-54. Panel discussion among Lasch, Gerald Marzorati, Benjamin Barber, Mary Ann Glendon, Dan Kemmis, and Christopher D. Stone. Reprinted in “Do We Have Any Duties? Or, Do We Have Only Rights?” Current, no. 334 (July-August 1991): 16-25.
6. “Beyond Sentimentalism.” New Republic (18 February 1991): 57-61. Essay-review of Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.
7. “Misreading the Facts About Families.” Commonweal (22 February 1991): 136-38. Review of Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late Twentieth-Century America by Judith Stacey. Included in chap. 8 of 1997-1.
8. “Anti-Modern Mysticism: E.M. Cioran and C.G. Jung: Notes on Gnosticism—Part IV.” New Oxford Review (March 1991): 20-26.
9. “Civic Wrongs.” Tikkun 6, no. 2 (1991): 71-73. Essay-review of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York by James Sleeper. Included in chap. 7 of 1995-1.
10. “Why Liberalism Lacks Virtue.” New Perspectives Quarterly 8 (Spring 1991): 30-34. Interview by Nathan Gardels.
11. Contribution to “Excerpts from a Conference to Honor William Appleman Williams.” Radical History Review, no. 50 (Spring 1991): 64-69.
12.  “The New Age Movement: No Effort, No Truth, No Solutions: Notes on Gnosticism—Part V.” New Oxford Review (April 1991): 8-13.
13. Review of The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe by Peter Coleman. American Historical Review 96 (April 1991): 486.
14. “Here’s Mud in Your Eye.” Commonweal (17 May 1991): 336-38. Review of The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett.
15. “Liberalism and Civic Virtue.” Telos, no. 88 (Summer 1991): 57-68.
16. “Preserving the Mild Life: Neighborhood Hangouts and the Social Spirit of the City.” Pittsburgh History 74 (Summer 1991): 87-91. Essay-review of The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day by Ray Oldenburg. Included in chap. 6 of 1995-1.
17. “The Soul of Man Under Secularism: On the Pride of Disillusionment.” New Oxford Review (July-August 1991): 12-19. Excerpts reprinted in “The Illusion of Disillusionment,” Harper’s (July 1991): 19-22, which is also available on the World Wide Web at http://catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0003.html. Included in chap. 13 of 1995-1.
18. “No Respect: A Reply to Michael Kazin and Barbara Ehrenreich.” Tikkun 6, no. 5 (1991): 42-44. Response to two critiques of 1991-1: Michael Kazin, “The People, Right and Wrong,” and Barbara Ehrenreich, “Through a Class Darkly,” both in Tikkun 6, no. 5 (1991): 37-42.
19. “The Fragility of Liberalism.” Salmagundi, no. 92 (Fall 1991): 5-18. Portions drawn from 1991-15, along with passages from 1990-19 and 1991-6. Reprinted in “The Age of Limits,” History and the Idea of Progress, ed. Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995), pp. 227-40 (with notes added by the editors, pp. 260-61); The New Salmagundi Reader, ed. Robert Boyers and Peggy Boyers (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996), pp. 531-45. 
20. “Beyond Left and Right.” Dissent (Fall 1991): 587-90. Essay-review of Why Americans Hate Politics by E.J. Dionne.
21. “On the Moral Vision of Democracy: A Conversation with Christopher Lasch.” Civic Arts Review 4 (Fall 1991): 4-9. Interview by Bernard Murchland. Reprinted, with some additional interview material, in Bernard Murchland, Voices of Democracy (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), pp. 111-23 (a few short passages from the journal version of the interview are omitted in the book version).
22. Contribution to “Symposium on Transcending Ideological Conformity: Beyond ‘Political Correctness,’ Left or Right.” New Oxford Review (October 1991): 20-22.
23. “Capitalism Itself Corrupts.” World & I (November 1991): 542-43. Comment on Stanley Rothman, “American Entrepreneurship: Its Rise and Decline,” World & I (November 1991): 509-37.
24. “‘Abbastanza buono’: Il nuovo stile americano alle soglie del XXI secolo.” Il Passaggio, no. 6 (November-December 1991): 35-41. Interview (in Italian) by Patricia Lombroso (pp. 35-36), followed by an Italian translation of 1992-9 (pp. 36-41).

1992

1. “The Great Experiment: Where Did It Go Wrong?” In Beyond Cheering and Bashing: New Perspectives on The Closing of the American Mind, ed. William K. Buckley and James Seaton, pp. 8-18. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1992. Included in chap. 8 of 1995-1.
2. “A Reply to Jeffrey Isaac.” Salmagundi, no. 93 (Winter 1992): 98-109. Response to Jeffrey Isaac, “On Christopher Lasch,” Salmagundi, no. 93 (Winter 1992): 82-97—a critique of 1991-1. Portions included in chap. 4 of 1995-1.
3. “Why Progressives Lose.” Commonweal (14 February 1992): 25-26. Review of Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State by Alan Dawley.
4. “How Television Deflates Politics.” New York Times (24 February 1992): A19.
5. “Communitarianism or Populism? The Ethic of Compassion and the Ethic of Respect.” New Oxford Review (May 1992): 5-12. Passages drawn from 1991-15 and 1991-19. Excerpts reprinted in Rights and the Common Good: The Communitarian Perspective, ed. Amitai Etzioni (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995), pp. 59-66. Included in chap. 5 of 1995-1.
6. “For Shame.” New Republic (10 August 1992). 29-34. Essay-review of Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex, and the Birth of the Self by Donald L. Nathanson; No Place to Hide: Facing Shame So We Can Find Self-Respect by Michael P. Nichols; Shame: The Exposed Self by Michael Lewis; Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem; Shame and Guilt in Neurosis by Helen Block Lewis; and The Mask of Shame by Léon Wurmser. Portions included in chap. 11 of 1995-1.
7. “Gnosticism, Ancient and Modern: The Religion of the Future?” Salmagundi, no. 96 (Fall 1992): 27-42.
8. “Is Progress Obsolete?” Time (Fall 1992 special issue): 71.
9. “‘Good Enough’—The American Way.” Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 1 (Fall 1992): 11-20.
10. “Tried and Found Wanting.” Commonweal (25 September 1992). 25-26. Review of The Culture of Contentment by John Kenneth Galbraith.
11. “Hillary Clinton, Child Saver.” Harper’s (October 1992): 74-82. Excerpts reprinted in “At Issue: Are Hillary Rodham Clinton’s views on children’s issues anti-family and out of the mainstream?” CQ Researcher 3 (23 April 1993): 353.
12. “After the Foundations Have Crumbled.” Commonweal (20 November 1992): 22-23. Review of Crossing the Postmodern Divide by Albert Borgmann.
13. “Gilligan’s Island.” New Republic (7 December 1992): 34-39. Essay-review of Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development by Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan. Included in chap. 6 of 1997-1.

1993

1. “The Culture of Consumption.” In Encyclopedia of American Social History, ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, vol. 2, pp. 1381-90. 3 vols.; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993. Excerpts available in “The Culture of Consumerism” on the World Wide Web at http://educate.si.edu/ap/essays/consume.htm and successive web pages.
2. “The Comedy of Love and the Querelle des Femmes: Aristocratic Satire on Marriage.” In The Mythmaking Frame of Mind: Social Imagination and American Culture, ed. James Gilbert et al., pp. 303-25. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1993. Included in chap. 1 of 1997-1.
3. “The Mysteries of Attraction.” Commonweal (26 February 1993): 22-24. Review of Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare by Jean H. Hagstrum. Included in chap. 2 of 1997-1.
4. “The Culture of Poverty and the Culture of ‘Compassion’.” Salmagundi, no. 98-99 (Spring-Summer 1993): 3-11.
5. “The Mismeasure of Man.” New Republic (19 April 1993): 30-35. Essay-review of The First Sexual Revolution: The Emergence of Male Heterosexuality in Modern America by Kevin White and American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era by E. Anthony Rotundo. Included in chap. 7 of 1997-1.
6.  “The Baby Boomers: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: A New Generation in the Wings: Commencement Address to the Department of History at the University of Rochester, Spring 1993.” New Oxford Review (September 1993): 7-8, 10.
7. “An Interview with Christopher Lasch.” Telos, no. 97 (Fall 1993): 124-35. Interview by Peggy Brawer and Sergio Benvenuto.

1994

1. “History as Social Criticism: Conversations with Christopher Lasch.” Journal of American History 80 (March 1994): 1310-32. Interviews by Casey Blake and Christopher Phelps.
2. Contribution to “Race and Racism: American Dilemmas Revisited.” Salmagundi, no. 104-105 (Fall 1994-Winter 1995): 3-155. Edited transcript of a conference held at Skidmore College. Lasch’s remarks appear at pp. 10-11, 29, 111, 113, 136-40, 140-41, 143, 146-47, 154.
3. “The Revolt of the Elites.” Harper’s (November 1994): 39-49. Included in chap. 2 of 1995-1.
4. “An Interview with Christopher Lasch.” Intellectual History Newsletter 16 (1994): 3-14. Interview by Richard Wightman Fox.
5. “Guilt.” Intellectual History Newsletter 16 (1994): 15-17.  Same as entry for “guilt” in 1995-2.

1995

1. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. New York: Norton, 1995. Paperback edition, New York: Norton, 1996. Includes material, most of it revised, from 1990-8, 1990-15, 1990-19, 1991-9, 1991-16, 1991-17, 1992-1, 1992-2, 1992-5, 1992-6, and 1994-3, as well as previously unpublished material.

[Reviewed or discussed in Kirkus Reviews (15 October 1994): 1388; Publisher’s Weekly (7 November 1994): 56, 58; Booklist (15 December 1994): 721 (Ray Olson); Wilson Quarterly 19 (Winter 1995): 102-104 (Alan Ryan); Lingua Franca (January/February 1995): 61-64 (Alan Wolfe); New York (9 January 1995): 50-51 (Walter Kirn); Wall Street Journal (10 January 1995): A18 (Christopher Caldwell); New York Times (13 January 1995): C32 (Michiko Kakutani); Washington Post Book World (15 January 1995): 1, 11 (John B. Judis); Newsday (15 January 1995): 38 (Paul Baumann); New York Times Book Review (22 January 1995): 1, 24-25 (John Gray); San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review (22 January 1995): 1 (Michael Stern); National Review (23 January 1995): 62-64 (Robert H. Bork); In These Times (23 January 1995): 34-35 (Mark Gauvreau Judge); Philadelphia Inquirer (29 January 1995): M1, M4 (Peter H. Stone); Chicago Tribune (29 January 1995): sec. 14, p. 3 (James North); Pittsburg Post-Gazette (29 January 1995): H4 (Tony Norman); New Yorker (30 January 1995): 86-89 (Richard Rorty); Chronicle of Higher Education (3 February 1995): A8; Business Week (6 February 1995): 17 (Christopher Farrell); Christian Science Monitor (10 February 1995): 11 (Gregory M. Lamb); Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) (12 February 1995): 6F (Brad Bradford); U.S. News & World Report (13 February 1995): 24 (John Leo); Buffalo News (19 February 1995): 7 (George Sax); Times-Picayune (New Orleans) (19 February 1995): E7 (Dennis Persica); Ottawa Citizen (19 February 1995): B3 (Charles Gordon); Toronto Star (4 March 1995): J16 (Norman Snider); U.S. News and World Report (6 March 1995): 81-87 (Wray Herbert); Seattle Times (12 March 1995): M2 (Joseph F. Keppler); Times (16 March 1995): 32 (Colin Welch); New Statesman & Society (17 March 1995): 39-40 (David Herman); Gazette (Montreal) (18 March 1995): H1 (Marianne Ackerman); The Reader (Spring 1995): 38-40 (Peter Buitenhuis); Hungry Mind Review (Spring 1995): 20 (Paul Gruchow); Humanitas 8, no. 2 (1995): 73-79 (Michael P. Federici); Commonweal (24 March 1995): 19-20 (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese); Financial Times (25 March 1995): VIII (Frank Webster); Independent (25 March 1995): 27 (Robert Winder); Guardian (27 March 1995): 11 (Will Hutton); American Spectator (April 1995): 62-63 (Harry Jacobs); Reason (April 1995): 59-62 (Steven Hayward); New Criterion (April 1995): 9-15 (Roger Kimball); Guardian (4 April 1995): T4 (Marc Babej); Times Higher Education Supplement (21 April 1995): 18 (Linda Joffee); Independent (30 April 1995): 36 (Nick Cohen); Commentary (May 1995): 76-80 (Wilfred M. McClay); American Spectator (May 1995): 72-74 (Daniel J. Silver); World & I (May 1995): 304-309 (Wayne Allen); American Enterprise (May/June 1995): 90 (Martin Morse Wooster); Dollars and Sense (May-June 1995): 36 (Bryan Snyder); Straits Times (Singapore) (8 May 1995): 46 (Richard Lim); London Review of Books (25 May 1995): 13-14 (Alan Ryan); Socialist Review (London) (June 1995): 27 (John Rees); Choice (June 1995): 1661-62 (Milton Cantor); Dissent (Summer 1995): 407-14 (George Scialabba); Partisan Review 62 (Summer 1995): 481-85 (Edith Kurzweil); IPA Review 48, no. 2 (1995): 57 (M.A. Casey); Newsweek (10 July 1995): 18-23 (Jerry Adler); Mises Review (Fall 1995): 11-13 (David Gordon); Times Literary Supplement (22 September 1995): 3-4 (Kenneth Anderson); Change (September/October 1995): 62 (Rosemary Park); International Affairs 71 (October 1995): 852 (Bryan Appleyard); Political Quarterly 66 (October-December 1995): 351-53  (Krishan Kumar); New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50 (Jackson Lears); Contemporary Sociology 24 (November 1995): 765-66 (Val Burris); Alberta Report 22 (27 November 1995): 50 (Mark Wegierski); Sojourners (November/December 1995): 95 (Bob Hulteen); Journal of American History 82 (December 1995): 1298-99 (George Cotkin); Historian 58 (Winter 1996): 408-409 (Carl F. Pinkele); Negations 1 (Winter 1996): 128-29 (Lantz Miller); Australia and World Affairs (Winter 1996): 52 (F.J.B.); New Left Review, no. 215 (January-February 1996): 149-55 (Aidan Rankin); College English 58 (March 1996): 349-59 (Jeff Smith); Australian Personal Computer (March 1996): 54 (Nat Tunbridge); Observer (24 March 1996): 16 (Tobias Jones); American Historical Review 101 (April 1996): 549-50 (Thomas Bender); Toronto Sun (21 April 1996): C12 (Meredith Renwick); Columbia Law Review 96 (May 1996): 1085-91 (Kenneth Anderson); Liberty 9 (May 1996): 55-58 (Jesse Walker); Political Studies 44 (June 1996): 364-65 (William Falcetano); Modern Age 38 (Summer 1996): 280-84 (Wayne Allen); Atlantic Monthly (November 1996): 109-16 (Nicholas Lemann); Journal of American Studies 31 (April 1997): 103-14 (M.J. Heale); Presidential Studies Quarterly 27 (Summer 1997): 604-606 (William T. Walker); Educational Theory 47 (Summer 1997): 425-31 (Laura Duhan Kaplan and Charles Kaplan); Review of Radical Political Economics 29, no. 4 (1997): 162-68 (Christy Cline Stewart); Weekend Australian (17 January 1998): 30 (Michael Duffy); Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society 18 (June 1998): 160-73 (Peter Goldstone and Robert Leone); Journal of General Education 48, no. 4 (1999): 304-306 (James De Ste Croix); European Business Review 99, no. 5 (1999): v-viii (Aiden Rankin); Midwest Quarterly 41 (Winter 2000): 129-44 (Arthur A. Molitierno); http://www.scottlondon.com/reviews/lasch.html (n.d.).]

2. S.v. “Brownson, Orestes”; “Calvinism”; “George, Henry”; “guilt”; “populism”; “progress”; “shame”; “social mobility.” In A Companion to American Thought, ed. Richard Wightman Fox and James T. Kloppenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.

1997

1. Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism, ed. and with an introduction by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn. New York: Norton, 1997. Paperback edition, New York: Norton, 1997. Includes material from 1974-7, 1980-8, 1991-2, 1991-7, 1992-13, 1993-2, 1993-3, and 1993-5, as well as previously unpublished material.

[Reviewed or discussed in Kirkus Reviews (15 November 1996): 1655; Library Journal (January 1997): 127 (Janet Clapp); Los Angeles Times Book Review (12 January 1997): 10 (Ellen Willis); New York Times Book Review (19 January 1997): 8 (Andrew Delbanco); First Things, no. 70 (February 1997): 40-43 (Mary Ann Glendon); New York Times Book Review (23 February 1997): 2 (Kathleen M. Dalton); Washington Post Book World (9 March 1997): 8 (Diana Morgan); Observer Review (16 March 1997): 17 (Elaine Showalter); New Statesman (21 March 1997): 53-54 (Melissa Benn); Sunday Times (23 March 1997) (Margarette Driscoll); Independent (23 March 1997): 41 (Joan Smith); Insight on the News (24 March 1997): 36 (Mark Gauvreau Judge); Irish Times (28 March 1997): 12 (Ethna Viney); Guardian (3 April 1997): T11 (Natasha Walter); Times Higher Education Supplement (4 April 1997): 23 (Mary Tomlinson); Weekly Standard (14 April 1997): 31-33 (Harvey Mansfield); Times Literary Supplement (11 July 1997): 13 (Alan Brinkley); Financial Times (23 August 1997): 6 (J.D.F. Jones); Public Interest, no. 129 (Fall 1997): 116-24 (Diana Schaub); New York Review of Books (6 November 1997): 47-51 (Alan Ryan); New Oxford Review (December 1997): 37-38 (James Seaton); Wilson Quarterly 21 (Winter 1997): 96-97 (Robyn Gearey); Catholic New Times (28 December 1997): 22 (Sylvia Santin); Courier-Mail (7 February 1998): 8 ; Jerusalem Post (13 March 1998): 24 (Leslie Cohen); Journal of American Studies 33 (April 1999): 176-77 (Kelly Boyd).]

2001

1. “Foreword.” In What’s Wrong With Day Care: Freeing Parents to Raise Their Own Children by Charles Siegel, pp. ix-xii. New York: Teachers College Press, 2001. “The author sent the first draft of this book to the late Christopher Lasch. Though he did not know the author, Lasch liked the book and agreed to write a foreword for it. After his death, this foreword was found, along with his correspondence with the author, in the archive of Lasch’s personal papers at the library of the University of Rochester” (p. xii).

2002

1. Plain Style: A Guide to Written English, ed. and with an introduction by Stewart Weaver. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Paperback edition, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

      [Reviewed in Booklist (1 and 15 June 2002): 1668 (Joanne Wilkinson); Los Angeles Times (2 June 2002): R-15 (Susan Salter Reynolds); San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Book Review (18 August 2002): M5 (John H. Summers); Fore Word (September 2002) (H.V. Cordry); Choice (January 2003): 792 (C.H. McWilliams).]

APPENDIX 1

The items in the following book were probably written or cowritten by Lasch. After the entry there is a brief discussion of my reasons for making this probable attribution.

1.  Headnotes for Documents #609-10, 631 (second half only), 646 (final paragraph only), 647-48, 650-70. In Documents of American History, ed. Henry Steele Commager, vol. 2, pp. 602-603, 603-604, 642, 684, 687, 688-89, 695-96, 696-97, 699, 700, 701, 703-704, 706, 708, 709, 711, 712-13, 714, 718, 720, 723, 725, 727, 728, 729-30, 732-33, 734. 2 vols.; 8th ed.; New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968. Here are the titles of all the documents, as they appeared in the 8th edition: #609, “Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, September 8, 1954”; #610, “Eisenhower’s Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, October 23, 1954”; #631, “National Defense Education Act, September 2, 1958”; #646, “The Berlin Crisis, 1961”; #647, “Kennedy’s Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, December 14, 1961”; #648, “Black Power, 1962”; #650, “The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 27, 1962”; #651, “Kennedy’s Speech at American University, June 10, 1963”; #652, “School District of Abington Township, Pennsylvania v. Schempp…1963”; #653, “The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, September 24, 1963”; #654, “Wesberry v. Sanders…1964”; #655, “Reynolds v. Sims…1964”; #656, “Escobedo v. Illinois…1964”; #657, “Bell v. Maryland…1964”; #658, “Civil Rights Act of 1964, July 2, 1964”; #659, “Goldwater’s Acceptance Speech, July 16, 1964”; #660, “The Tonkin Gulf Incident, 1964”; #661, “Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, August 20, 1964”; #662, “The Warren Report, September 24, 1964”; #663, “The Berkeley Student Revolt, 1964”; #664, “‘Aggression From the North’: State Department White Paper on Vietnam, February 27, 1965”; #665, “Johnson’s Speech on Vietnam, Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965”; #666, “Johnson’s Statement on American Intervention in the Dominican Republic, May 2, 1965”; #667, “Griswold v. Connecticut…1965”; #668, “Social Security Amendments of 1965 (Medicare), July 30, 1965”; #669, “Johnson’s Statement on the Riot in Watts, August 20, 1965”; #670, “Ginzburg v. United States…1966.” The first half of the headnote for Document #631 in the 8th edition had also appeared in the 6th (1958) and 7th (1963) editions to introduce a different document, “White House Conference Recommendation of Federal Aid to Education, 1956”; the second half of the headnote was new to the 8th edition, as was the document itself. The headnote for Document #646 in the 8th edition had also appeared in the 7th edition, but in the 8th edition a new final paragraph was added to describe the public debate over fall-out shelters and civil defense policy that the 1961 Berlin crisis had stirred up. Documents #648, 654, 659, 663, 669, and 670 in the 8th edition as well as their headnotes were dropped from the 9th (1973) and 10th (1988) editions for reasons of space.

In the preface to the 8th edition, Commager (who was Lasch’s father-in-law) wrote as follows: “In order to avoid an enlargement which would make Documents of American History unwieldy, I have reluctantly had to drop a number of documents which were included in the seventh edition…. By eliminating these I have made room for twenty-six new documents from the period since 1962…. In the selection and the editing of these documents I have been greatly aided by Professor Christopher Lasch of Northwestern University” (p. viii). All the documents listed above (apart from Document #646) were new to the 8th edition and add up to 26 documents. Thus, these are the documents that Lasch at the very least helped to select and edit for the 8th edition. That he also had a role in writing the headnotes for them is suggested by the fact that several of them, especially those concerning “black power” and the urban crisis (#648, 669), the war in Vietnam (#609, 610, 647, 660, 664, 665), civil defense policy (#646, final paragraph), and other Cold War issues (#631, 650, 651, 666), express views on those topics that closely parallel those expressed by Lasch in his writings in the 1960s (e.g., 1961-4, 1961-5, 1961-9, 1961-10, 1962-6, 1962-9, 1962-10, 1963-11, 1965-3, 1965-7, 1965-10, 1968-2, 1968-3). Moreover, though this is somewhat more nebulous, the prose of the headnotes “sounds” like Lasch’s prose, as in phrasing, sentence structure, etc. Neither of these factors proves that Lasch wrote or cowrote them—and I have found no direct evidence on that point—but I do think they make it probable that he did.

APPENDIX 2

Below is a list of recordings of public lectures delivered by Lasch as well as panel and conference discussions in which he participated. They are listed in chronological order. My citations are based on searches done on WorldCat in 2003 and on OCLC in 1997. I do not have copies of the cassette tapes, nor have I listened to them. It is possible the third and fourth citations are duplicates of the first two.

“The New Presidential Ballgame.” 1 sound cassette. N.p. [Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1975. Lecture by Lasch.

“The Implications of Watergate.” 1 sound cassette. N.p. [Santa Barbara, Calif.]: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1975. Panel discussion with Samuel H. Beer.

“The Modern Presidency: How You Play the Game.” 1 reel. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1976. Group discussion at a conference on the Watergate crisis, held in December 1973.

“Constitutional Implications of Watergate: A Summing Up.” 1 reel. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1976. Group discussion at the final session of a conference on the Watergate crisis, held in December 1973.

 “The Me Decade: Narcissism in America.” 1 sound cassette. Washington, D.C.: National Public Radio, 1979. Panel discussion with Henry Fairlie and moderator Richard Cohen. Recorded at a National Town meeting at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. and broadcast on NPR on 21 June 1979.

“Revaluing Political and Social Systems Toward a Useable Future.” 1 videocassette. Georgia: JPC Publications, n.d. Apparently a lecture at the ACPE [?] conference in Breckenridge, Colo. in 1991. Also available as a sound cassette from “Meetings Internationale” in Louisville, Ken.

 

APPENDIX 3

Below is a list of works—by no means exhaustive—that discuss the life and work of Lasch. In some cases, items listed here could well have been included in the lists of reviews and discussions of each of his books that appear in the main body of the bibliography, and vice versa. Eventually, as the corpus of critical writings about Lasch increases, I plan to move some of the items listed there to this Appendix. In a few cases (the pieces by Jackson Lears, Louis Menand, and Robert Westbrook), I’ve included them in both places.

Obituaries and posthumous tributes:

Blake, Casey. “Christopher Lasch.” OAH [Organization of American Historians] Newsletter (May 1994): 14-15.

Boyers, Robert. “An Editor’s Notebook.” Salmagundi, no.101-102 (Winter-Spring 1994): 4-10.

Coles, Robert. “Remembering Christopher Lasch.” New Oxford Review (September 1994): 16-19.

Editors. “Hail and Farewell.” New Republic (7 March 1994): 8-9.

Editors. “Christopher Lasch, R.I.P.: Historian, Author, Social Commentator.” National Review (21 March 1994): 20.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. “Eulogy for Christopher Lasch.” New Oxford Review (May 1994): 25-27.

———. “Christopher Lasch, American.” Tikkun 9, no. 3 (1994): 57-58.

———. “The Life and Work of Christopher Lasch: An American Story.” Salmagundi, no. 106-107 (Spring-Summer 1995): 146-61.

Jacoby, Russell. “Christopher Lasch (1932-1994).” Telos, no. 97 (Fall 1993 [sic]): 121-23.

Judis, John B. “Three Wise Men.” New Republic (30 May 1994): 20-21, 24. [The other two “wise men” were Russell Kirk and Karl Hess.]

O’Connor, Brendon. “Christopher Lasch.” Arena Magazine (December 1995-January 1996): 45.

Phelps, Christopher. “Revolted by Elites.” In These Times (20 March 1995): 32-34.

Piccone, Paul. “Introduction.” Telos, no. 97 (Fall 1993 [sic]): 5-8.

Raimi, Ralph A. “Remembering Christopher Lasch.” Chronicles (September 1995): 43-45.

Siegel, Robert. “Noted American Historian Dies at 61.” Interview with Casey Blake. National Public Radio, “All Things Considered” program (15 February 1994). Transcript #1394-5

Vree, Dale. “Christopher Lasch: A Memoir.” New Oxford Review (April 1994): 2-5.

Westbrook, Robert. “Christopher Lasch, Historian and Social Critic.” Perspectives [Newsletter of the American Historical Association] (April 1994): 27.

Obituaries also appeared in at least the following newspapers: New York Times (15 February 1994): A19 (William Grimes); St. Louis Post-Dispatch (16 February 1994): 4B; Daily Telegraph (16 February 1994): 21; San Francisco Examiner (16 February 1994): C7; St. Petersburg Times (17 February 1994): 16A; Independent (19 February 1994): 47 (Godfrey Hodgson); Guardian (19 February 1994): 30 (Vera Rule); Times (26 February 1994): 19.

Books, articles, entries in reference works:

Alchon, Guy. S.v. “Lasch, Christopher.” In American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Beiner, Ronald. “Left-Wing Conservatism: The Legacy of Christopher Lasch.” In Beiner, Philosophy in a Time of Lost Spirit: Essays on Contemporary Theory, pp. 139-50, 217-22. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Clecak, Peter. America’s Quest for the Ideal Self: Dissent and Fulfillment in the 60s and 70s, pp. 246-60 and passim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Elshtain, Jean Bethke. “Limits and Hope: Christopher Lasch and Political Theory.” Social Research 66 (Summer 1999): 531-43.

Fox, Richard Wightman. S.v. “Lasch, Christopher.” In A Companion to American Thought, ed. Fox and James T. Kloppenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1995.

Harkenrider, Zach. “From The New Radicalism in America to The Revolt of the Elites: Christopher Lasch and His Criticism.” Unpublished senior honors thesis, Department of History, University of Rochester, 2001.

Hickey, Kevin M. “Christopher Lasch.” In Twentieth-century American Cultural Theorists (volume 246 of the Dictionary of Literary Biography), ed. Paul Hansom, pp. 240-52. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group, 2001.

Holmes, Stephen. “Anti-Prometheanism: The Case of Christopher Lasch.” In Holmes, The Anatomy of Antiliberalism, pp. 122-40, 289-90. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993.

Johnston, Robert D. S.v. “Lasch, Christopher.” In Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, ed. Kelly Boyd. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.

Kamiya, Gary. “To Hell In A Handbasket.” San Francisco Examiner (11 August 1991): Image [Sunday magazine section], pp. 6-14. [Lasch comments wryly about this piece near the end of his JAH interviews (1994-1, p. 1332); nonetheless, it remains a valuable resource because of the quotes it contains from Kamiya’s January 1991 interview with Lasch.]

Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth. “Introduction.” In Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism by Christopher Lasch, pp. ix-xxvii. New York: Norton, 1997.

Lawler, Peter Augustine. “Moral Realism versus Therapeutic Elitism: Christopher Lasch’s Populist Defense of American Character” and “The Return to Realism.” In Lawler, Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought, pp. 157-87. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.

Lears, Jackson. “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” New Republic (2 October 1995): 42-50.

Menand, Louis. “Christopher Lasch’s Quarrel with Liberalism.” In Menand, American Studies, pp. 198-220, 302-304. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. This essay also appeared in John Patrick Diggins, ed., The Liberal Persuasion: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and the Challenge of the American Past (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), pp. 233-50. It is a slightly revised version of his review of 1991-1, which appeared in the New York Review of Books (11 April 1991): 39-44.

Miller, Eric J. “Radical Vision: Christopher Lasch and the Quest for Community.” In Building a Healthy Culture: Strategies for an American Renaissance, ed. Don Eberly, pp. 226-45. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2001.

———. “American Sojourn: A Life of Christopher Lasch.” Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 2003.

Seaton, James. “The Gift of Christopher Lasch.” First Things, no. 45 (August/September 1994): 10-12.

Weaver, Stewart. “Christopher Lasch and the Politics of the Plain Style.” In Plain Style: A Guide to Written English by Christopher Lasch, pp. 1-42. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Westbrook, Robert B. “Christopher Lasch, The New Radicalism, and the Vocation of Intellectuals.” Reviews in American History 23 (March 1995): 176-91.

APPENDIX 4

Below is a list of items related to Lasch that I believe do not belong in the bibliography, but that may be of interest. Within each category, items are listed chronologically.

These quote or report on lectures or statements that were subsequently published:

Contribution to “Notable Quotes from the Eastman Conference.” Music Educators Journal 70 (November 1983): 43. Three short paragraphs of excerpts from 1984-3.

“Left Behind by the Cold War’s End.” Washington Post (12 June 1990): E1. A news report by E.J. Dionne that focuses on Lasch’s statement at the William Appleman Williams memorial conference as well as the reaction of other participants to it; it contains many quotes from Lasch’s statement, which was later published in 1991-11.

“Beliefs.” New York Times (17 April 1991): sec. 1, p. 12.  A news report by Peter Steinfels  about a lecture, later published in 1991-17; it summarizes the lecture and contains many quotes.

This quotes a paper that was not, to the best of my knowledge, subsequently published:

“Handlin Warns Scholars of ‘Decay’ in Profession.” New York Times (30 December 1970): 8. A news story about a paper delivered by Oscar Handlin at the 1970 convention of the American Historical Association; the final three paragraphs of the story deal with Lasch’s critical commentary on the paper, which was delivered at the session, with a phrase and two sentences from it quoted.

These either are excerpts from published pieces or contain interview material, but their  brevity differentiates them from the article excerpts and most of the interviews that have been included in the bibliography:

“Glamour in Politics: The Boredom Factor.” Psychology Today (August 1981): 83. A very brief, one-paragraph excerpt from 1981-2.

“Standing Up for the Lower Middle Class.” New York Times Book Review (27 January 1991): 28. A brief boxed sketch of Lasch, by Barth Healey, that ran with the review of 1991-1 that appeared in the Book Review; it includes brief quotes from an interview.

These are public letters or collective statements that Lasch signed along with others, but his authorship is unclear and in many cases quite unlikely. N.B.: I have not systematically checked for such items in the New York Review, which carried most of the ones that are listed below, nor in the New York Times, which may well contain others:

“The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy.” New York Review of Books (19 June 1969): 37-38. Statement of a committee supporting the “Chicago 7” defendants; it lists many signers.

“Petition.” New York Review of Books (4 June 1970): 59. See the letter of explanation by Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, “The National Petition Campaign,” ibid., 59-60. The campaign was started at the University of Rochester in the wake of the invasion of Cambodia by U.S. forces that spring, and it aimed to get Congress to condemn President Nixon’s actions and to require him to withdraw U.S, troops from Indochina. It contains many signers.

“The Mandel Case.” New York Review of Books (19 November 1970): 54. A call for contributions to support a legal challenge to the U.S. government’s having twice barred Ernest Mandel from visiting the United States. It contains six signers and others not listed.

“Ford’s Better Idea.” New York Review of Books (25 January 1973): 45-46. A public letter criticizing the Ford Foundation’s decision to give a grant to Encounter. It lists many signers.

“Socialists Plan Founding Parley.” New York Times (10 September 1973): 21. A news story about a public statement by the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee calling for a founding convention for a new socialist organization; Lasch is listed at the end of the story as one of 45 people who signed the statement; the story contains extensive quotes from the statement.

“Plea for a Philosopher.” New York Times (22 July 1987): sec. 1, p. 26. Letter, dated 13 July 1987, by Stanley Cavell, Ronald Dworkin, Michael Walzer, Christopher Lasch, and Susan Sontag, on behalf of the Hungarian philosopher Janos Kis, who was being denied a work permit by the Hungarian authorities to teach at the New School for Social Research in New York.

These newspaper stories report Lasch’s views on a variety of subjects, in the reporter’s own words, but also intersperse quotes from Lasch interviews (and/or lectures); in this respect, they resemble Braden’s book (1970-3), but their “mixed” format differs from the interviews by Sanoff (1982-4) and Judis (1984-8), both of which separate the prose of the reporters from the interview quotes.

“A Scholar Examines the Besieged Family.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (26 December 1977): 1C, 4C. An article by Mary Rita Kurycki about themes in 1977-1, with quotes from an interview with Lasch.

"Doomsayer of the Me Decade." Washington Post (24 January 1979): B1, B7. An article by Henry Allen about 1979-1, with quotes from an interview with Lasch at the University of Rochester.

 “We’re Living on Borrowed Time.” St. Petersburg Times (15 November 1987): D13-14, E1. An article by Thomas Harrison about Lasch’s visit to, and lecture at, the University of South Florida; it contains lengthy, and very interesting, quotes from either the lecture or an interview by reporter Harrison—probably the latter since they sound conversational and informal.

“Not Everyone Can Live Like Yuppies.” Associated Press story (2 August 1991), available on Lexis-Nexis. A news story, with what appear to be interview quotes, keyed to 1991-1.