Introduction ; 1. Women's Lot, review of Jane Roland Martin, Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman, The New York Review of Books, January 30, 1986. ; 2. Sex in the Head, review of Roger Scruton, Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic, The New York Review of Books, December 18, 1986. ; 3. Undemocratic Vistas, review of Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students, The New York Review of Books, November 5, 1987. ; 4. Recoiling from Reason, review of Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality,The New York Review of Books, December 7, 1989. ; 5. The Bondage and Freedom of Eros, Review of David Halperin, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love and John J. Winkler, The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Greece, The Times Literary Supplement, June 1990. ; 6. Our Pasts, Ourselves, review of Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, The New Republic, April 9, 1990. ; 7. The Chill of Virtue, review of Gregory Vlastos, Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher, The New Republic, September 15,1991. ; 8. Venus in Robes, review of Richard Posner, Sex and Reason, The New Republic, April 20, 1992. ; 9. Justice for Women!, review of Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family, The New York Review of Books, October 8, 1992. ; 10. Divided We Stand, review of William Bennett, The Book of Virtues, The New Republic, December 1993. ; 11. Looking Good, Being Good, review of Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress (and two other books), The New Republic, January 2, 1995. ; 12. Feminists and Philosophy, review of Louise B. Antony and Charlotte Witt, eds., A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity, The New York Review of Books, October 20, 1994. Letters and Reply, April 6, 1995. ; 13. Unlocal Hero, review of Kristen Renwick Monroe, The Heart of Altruism: Perceptions of a Common Humanity and Tzvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, The New Republic, October 28, 1996. ; 14. Foul Play, review of William Ian Miller, The Anatomy of Disgust, The New Republic, November 17, 1997. ; 15. If Oxfam Ran the World, review of Peter Unger, Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence, The London Review of Books, September 4, 1997. Letters and Reply, October 2, 1997. ; 16. The Professor of Parody, review of four books by Judith Butler, The New Republic February 22, 1999. Letters and Reply, April 19, 1999. ; 17. Experiments in Living, review of Michael Warner, The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life, The New Republic, January 3, 2000. ; 18. Review of Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler, From Chance to Choice; Genetics and Justice, The New Republic, December 4, 2000. ; 19. Disabled Lives: Who Cares?, review of Eva Feder Kittay, Love's Labor: Essays on Women, Equality, and Dependency; Michael Berube, Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child; and Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It. The New York Review of Books January 11, 2001. ; 20. When She Was Good, review of Peter J. Conradi, Iris Murdoch: A Life, The New Republic January 7, 2002. ; 21. Dr. True Self, review of F. Robert Rodman, Winnicott: Life and Work, The New Republic October 27, 2003. ; 22. For Once Clear to See, review of Mary Kinzie, Drift, Poetry 183 (January 2004), 235-38. ; 23. The Founder, review of Judith M. Brown, Nehru: A Political Life and Shashi Tharoor, Nehru: The Invention of India, The New Republic, February 14, 2005. ; 24. Epistemology of the Closet, review of Bart Schultz, Henry Sidgwick: The Eye of the Universe, The Nation, June 6, 2005. ; 25. The Prohibition Era, review of Kenji Yoshino, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights, The New Republic, March 20, 2006. ; 26. Man Overboard, review of Harvey C. Mansfield, Manliness, The New Republic, June 26, 2006. ; 27. Legal Weapon, review of Catharine A. MacKinnon, Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues. The Nation, July 31/August 7, 2006. ; 28. Review of Martha Alter Chen, Perpetual Mourning: Widowhood in Rural India; Martha Alter Chen, wed., Widows in India: Social Neglect and Public Action; Deepa Mehta, Water (film); Bapsi Sidhwa, Water: A Novel; Devyani Saltzman, Shooting Water: A memoir of Second Chances, Family, and Filmmaking. Unpublished, written late 2006. ; 29. Texts for Torturers, review of Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect, The Times Literary Supplement, October 19, 2007. ; 30. Stages of Thought, review of A. D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker, Colin McGinn, Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays, and Tzachi Zamir, Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama, The New Republic, May 7, 2008. ; 31. The Passion Fashion, review of Cristina Nehring, A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century, The New Republic, September 23, 2009. ; 32. Becky, Tess, and Moll, review of Nicola Lacey, Women, Crime, and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Times Literary Supplement, September 18, 2009. ; 33. Examined Life (Inheriting Socrates), review of Astra Taylor, The Examined Life (film), The Point 2 (winter 2010). ; 34. Representative Woman, review of Christine Stansell, The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present, The Nation, October 25, 2010. ; 35. review of Stefan Collni, That's Offensive!, The New Statesman March 2011.
