Lears, Jackson

Jackson Lears on late-19th-century visions of rebirth

Jackson Lears on the ambivalence in American culture about chance and gambling

Jackson Lears on why the culture of the therapeutic triumphed

Historian Jackson Lears explains how gambling springs from a longing for an experience of “unbidden beneficence,” a repudiation of the idea of control that marks modernity. (49 minutes)

FROM VOL. 13 Historian and cultural critic Jackson Lears discusses the power of advertising to reinforce and shape cultural attitudes about material goods. (9 minutes)

Ted Prescott, Jackson Lears, Mark Crispin Miller, James Twitchell, and Pamela Walker Laird discuss how advertising affects personal and social life. (53 minutes)

FEATURED GUESTS: Charles M. Sennott, Nicholas Orme, J. Budziszewski, Albert Borgmann, James A. Herrick, Darrell Cole, and Jackson Lears