An Angry Pataki, His Race Askew, Rides Teachers Not long after his humiliating defeat on the Independence Party line-the first-ever defeat of his political career-Governor George Pataki stood By Andrea Bernstein
America’s Homegrown Idea: Pragmatism and Its Progenitors The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America , by Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 546 pages, $27. By Adam Begley
Eminent, Ironic, Unpopular: The Hopeful Richard Rorty Philosophy and Social Hope , by Richard Rorty. Penguin Books, 288 pages, $13.95. In the dark days after Ronald Reagan By Stephen Metcalf