Columnist
Carroll is Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University, holder of the 2011 Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair at Emory University, and a columnist for the Globe. He is author of ten novels and six works of non-fiction, including “Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World.”
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JAMES CARROLL
A counterculture of Catholic monks
By James Carroll, Globe Columnist
Cloistered and detached as it seems now, the monastic life was, in St. Benedict’s day, a model for forward progress.
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Eisenhower memorial overstates president’s innocence
By James Carroll,
The design for Dwight D. Eisenhower’s memorial exhibits the very American impulse to elevate the image of innocence over experience.
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Mike Wallace and his blues brothers
By James Carroll, Globe Columnist
Obituaries of Mike Wallace noted that he shared a history of depression with two famous friends, the columnist Art Buchwald and the novelist William Styron.
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A Darwinian campaign season
By James Carroll, Globe Columnist
The Republican candidates have done society a service by forcing voters to acknowledge just how rapidly our culture is transforming.