Louis Menand Audio & Video

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years.

Louis Menand, professor of English and American literature and language in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a member of the Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty, is the author of The Metaphysical Club (2001)…

American Studies, the latest book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Louis Menand, collects Menand's striking re-examinations of American cultural icons...

Louis Menand masterfully weaves pivotal late 19th-and early 20th-century events, colorful biographical anecdotes, and abstract ideas into a narrative whole that both enthralls and enlightens.

The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas.

Menand's latest journey through American cultural history.

According to Harvard professor Louis Menand, at a time when competition to get into and succeed in college has never been more intense, universities are providing a less useful education. In The Marketplace of Ideas, he assesses what is important in a traditional university---and what is not.