of rooting and civic obligations. Globalization, according to the historian, has turned elites into tourists in their own countries. The de-nationalization of society tends to produce a class who see themselves as "world citizens, but without accepting… any of the obligations that citizenship in a polity normally implies". Their ties to an international culture of work, leisure, information – make many of them deeply indifferent to the prospect of national decline. Instead of financing public services and the public treasury, new elites are investing their money in improving their voluntary ghettos: private schools in their residential neighborhoods, private police, garbage collection systems. They have "withdrawn from common life". Composed of those who control the international flows of capital and information, who preside over philanthropic foundations and institutions of higher education, they manage the instruments of cultural production and thus fix the terms of public debate. So, the political debate is limited mainly to the dominant classes and political ideologies lose all contact with the concerns of the ordinary citizen. The result of this is that no one has a likely solution to these problems and that there are furious ideological battles on related issues. However, they remain protected from the problems affecting the working classes: the decline of industrial activity, the resulting loss of employment, the decline of the middle class, increasing the number of the poor, the rising crime rate, growing drug trafficking, the urban crisis. In addition, he finalized his intentions for the essays to be included in Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism, which was published, with his daughter's introduction, in 1997. Selected works Books 1962: The American Liberals and the Russian Revolution. 1965: The New Radicalism in America 1889–1963: The Intellectual As a Social Type. 1969: The Agony of the American Left. 1973: The World of Nations. 1977: Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged. 1979: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. 1984: The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times. 1991: The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics. 1994: The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy, W. W. Norton & Company, 1997: Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism. 2002: Plain Style: A Guide to Written English. Articles The Future of the Humanities The Politics of Anti-Realism Intellectuals Intellectuals. Symposium: Habits of The Heart. Interview. See also Cultural