Bio
John E. Becker is professor emeritus of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Currently an editor of The Literary Review, he once served as literary editor of WORLDVIEW, a long-running (1958-1985) Carnegie Council publication.
Featured Work
DEC 2, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Philip Kitcher, "Science, Truth, and Democracy"
Kitcher cuts a clear path between those who worship science as a religion and those who fashionably insist that science is merely a set of ...
NOV 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Paul Woodruff, "Reverence"
Woodruff doesn't lament the absence of reverence in our life; he asks us to discover it where it already is. We could not live ...
OCT 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Mark Lilla, "The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics"
"Lilla's book summarizes the thought of some of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, some of whom are well known but others of ...
SEP 2, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Thomas Cahill, "Pope John XXIII"
Cahill tells two stories, the story of the papacy and the story of John XXIII. The first gives context to the second. And that context--the ...
AUG 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Stephen E. Ambrose, "Nothing Like It in the World", David Howard Bain, "Empire Express"
Reading the story of the transcontinental railroad, looking back at the relentless advance of European immigration across the North American continent, it seems that the ...
JUL 1, 2002 • Article
"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Charles Taylor, "Sources of Self", Ruth Abbey, "Charles Taylor"
"Abbey's book is an excellent introduction for those who have not read Taylor and a fine retrospective for those who have been following his thought ...