Alan Wolfe, a professor of politics at Boston College, thinks it time to reunite them.

ECONOMIST: Liberalism

Dr. ALAN WOLFE (Boston College): Boycotts are primarily symbolic.

NPR: History of Boycotts

Alan Wolfe, of the Boisi Institute for the Study of Religion at Boston College, points out that American religion is exceptional in two senses: not only are Americans more religious than Europeans, but they have no national church.

ECONOMIST: Therapy of the masses

In 1999, the political scientist Alan Wolfe pointed out that much of the scholarship Friedan relied on in her diagnosis of the feminine mystique work by Margaret Mead, Alfred Kinsey, and Bruno Bettelheim has since turned out to be suspect.

NEWYORKER: Books as Bombs