MONSTER SUCCESS. Now that O.J. Simpson is publishing his quasi-confession If I Did It, I’m looking for a forthcoming memoir by former Rep. Mark Foley that ought to be called My Back Pages. It’s no longer true that patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. The last refuge now is the best-seller list.

–Paul Starr

Paul Starr is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the Bancroft Prize in American history, he is the author of eight books, including American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now (Yale University Press, October 2025).