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David Sontag Rieff
Rieff in 2017
Born (1952-09-28) September 28, 1952 (age 71)
EducationLycée Français de New York
Alma materAmherst College
Princeton University
Occupation(s)Non-fiction writer, policy analyst
Children1
Parents
  • Philip Rieff (father)
  • Susan Sontag (mother)

David Rieff (/ˈrf/; born September 28, 1952) is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism.

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David Rieff

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David Rieff (/ˈriːf/; born September 28, 1952) is an American nonfiction writer and policy analyst. His books have focused on issues of immigration, international...

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Philip Rieff

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Philip Rieff (December 15, 1922 – July 1, 2006) was an American sociologist and cultural critic, who taught sociology at the University of Pennsylvania...

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Susan Sontag

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she has been considered an unofficial co-author. The couple had a son, David Rieff, who went on to be his mother's editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux,...

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In Praise of Forgetting

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Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press. Rieff argues the contrarian position that sometimes history...

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The Closing of the American Mind

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Nehamas in the London Review of Books; and by David Rieff in The Times Literary Supplement. David Rieff called Bloom "an academic version of Lieut. Col...

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On Women

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essay collection after At the Same Time (2007), it was edited by her son David Rieff and features an introduction by Turkish-American writer Merve Emre. On...

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Civil society

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constraining the un-democratic consolidation of power. Others, such as David Rieff, point out that the U.S. government is more financially equipped to work...

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Allan Bloom

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Nietzsche, in the London Review of Books; and David Rieff in The Times Literary Supplement. David Rieff called Bloom "an academic version of Oliver North:...

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List of Bard College people

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Jacob Neusner Albert Jay Nock Arthur Penn Paul Ramirez Jonas Orhan Pamuk David Rieff Roswell Rudd Mary Lee Settle Isaac Bashevis Singer Wadada Leo Smith Wilhelm...

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Collective memory

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limitations by developing a related concept of "social forgetting". Historian David Rieff takes issue with the term "collective memory", distinguishing between...

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Daniel Goldhagen

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people brought about by war, could I call it Better than Genocide?" David Rieff, characterizing Goldhagen as a "pro-Israel polemicist and amateur historian"...

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War of ideas

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was held bringing together Paul Berman, Scott Malcomson, James Traub, David Rieff, Ian Burama and Michael Ignatieff. Malcomson observed, The American reaction...

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Roy Gutman

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war crimes, Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know, co-edited with David Rieff, was published by W.W. Norton in 1999 with a second edition in 2007....

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Bob Geldof

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– BBC web-site". Retrieved 8 April 2014. Geldof, Bob. Live Aid DVD. David Rieff "Cruel to be kind?", Archived 8 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine The...

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Los Angeles

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American West. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-2567-1. David Rieff (1992). Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World. Touchstone. ISBN 978-0-671-79210-7...

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Live Aid

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accomplished good ends while inadvertently causing harm at the same time, David Rieff gave a presentation of similar concerns in The Guardian at the time of...

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International human rights law

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prosecution under universal jurisdiction. See Hitchens, Christopher, and David Rieff. "[3]." Prospect, 28 June 2001 (accessed 11 June 2013); Hitchens, Christopher...

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Skidmore College

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Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Howard, Carolyn Forche, Martin Jay, and David Rieff are among the writers who have contributed to Salmagundi. Regular columnists...

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List of people named David

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musician David Ridgen, Canadian filmmaker David Ridley (born 1954), English cricketer David Rieff (born 1952), American writer and policy analyst David Riehm...

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Jacobo Timerman

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Coetzee, “'They Wanted to Terrify Me'”, New York Times, 10 January 1988. David Rieff, “A Suffocating and Demoralized Island", New York Times, 21 October 1990...

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Mexican drug war

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Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War. City Lights Books. p. 190. David Rieff, "The Struggle for Mexico", The New Republic, March 17, 2011. Anonymous...

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Richard Holbrooke

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this was the moment that put the 'almost' in 'almost great.'" (p. 15.) David Rieff, "An American in the Treetops: Should we miss Richard Holbrooke?", Harper's...

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Politics of Indonesia

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political spectrum for their respective interests. It is defined broadly by David Rieff as the wide range of organizations operating outside the governmental...

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New tribalism

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authority. Anzaldúa states that she "appropriated" and reused the term from David Rieff, who had "used it to criticize [her] for being 'a professional Aztec'...

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