Robert Zaretsky is a Professor of History at the University of Houston in the field of modern European intellectual and cultural history. He is the author of A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning and Boswell’s Enlightenment, and is at work on a book on the friendship between Catherine the Great and Denis Diderot. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde Diplomatique, Chronicle of Higher Education, and the London Times Higher Education Magazine. He is the history editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books and a monthly columnist for the Jewish Daily Forward.
Labor
The Complicated Story Behind Those Images of Terrified Air France Executives Fleeing Workers
Robert Zaretsky
Culture
Reading Camus in Tunisia
The Rebel and the Arab Spring.
Robert Zaretsky
Announcing In These Times’ New Agreement with the National Writers Union
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