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The West is a Third World Country: The Relevance of Philip Rieff

Public Discourse
Cultural conservatives face a time when it is not simply a question of debating the nature of our culture on some commonly agreed foundation...
67 months ago

Philip Rieff’s Charisma

First Things
I don't think many would dispute that Philip Rieff was one of the most perceptive and creative . . . .
209 months ago

The importance of repression Philip Rieff predicted that therapy culture would end in barbarism

UnHerd
A little over a half-century ago, the sociologist Philip Rieff announced the “triumph of the therapeutic” with his 1966 book of the same...
36 months ago

Philip Rieff

The Guardian
While lecturing on Freud at the University of Chicago in 1950, the sociologist Philip Rieff, who has died aged 83, saw a glamorous...
218 months ago

Susan Sontag was true author of ex-husband's book, biography claims

The Guardian
Sontag: Her Life says she wrote Freud: The Mind of the Moralist by Philip Rieff, whom she married at 17.
64 months ago

Know Your Enemy: Triumph of the Therapeutic, with Hannah Zeavin and Alex Colston

Dissent Magazine
Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Read more about it here.
19 months ago

RJN: 7.10.06 Philip Rieff has died at age 83… | Richard John Neuhaus

First Things
Philip Rieff has died at age 83, in Philadelphia. We never met, but he would write from time to time, usually a brief note on something or the other that...
218 months ago

Opinion | Hey, America, Grow Up! (Published 2023)

The New York Times
The therapeutic culture undermined that inner security for several generations of Americans. Maybe we can try to build a culture around the ideal of maturity.
13 months ago

Falling From Grace (Published 2007)

The New York Times
Philip Rieff argues for a revival of the ancient concept of charisma.
211 months ago

Did Susan Sontag Write Her Ex-Husband’s Most Famous Book?

The Forward
Did Susan Sontag write "Freud: The Mind of the Moralist," attributed to Philip Rieff, her ex-husband? So contends Benjamin Moser,...
64 months ago