The fourth and final report issued by Columbia University’s Task Force on Antisemitism invokes the great German sociologist Max Weber not once but twice. The first reference inv ...

I n the summer of 1917, a group of university students in Munich invited Max Weber to launch a lecture series on “intellectual work as a vocation” with a talk about the scholar’s work. He was, in a ...

A leader who had promised the best of times had led the nation to the worst of times. Impulsive and ignorant, he disdained the civil servants his predecessors depended upon and had instead surrounded ...

Max Weber was the kind of genius we don’t seem to encounter anymore. Trained in law, he taught economics and helped invent sociology while dabbling in philosophy, history, and the study of art, as ...

MAX WEBER IN AMERICA? The idea seems almost preposterous. We often think of Weber as the quintessential European thinker: abstract, worldly, brooding, and difficult. The America of his period of ...