Mapping ethical and political entanglements and dilemmas of the globalizing US, "Feeling Global" articulates commitments to the liberal welfare-state at the same time it pushes outward towards modes of transnational solidarity in the struggle for human rights and democratized forms of culture. This is a brave, elegant, and timely book cognizant of global/local dialectics that are now pulling at the nation state and unravelling the paradoxes of liberal humanism. No "monarch-of-all-I-survey," Bruce Robbins yet hazards a wry perspective of cosmopolitan globailty and, chapter by chapter, articulates the paradoexes of feeling global yet remaining national in struggles and claims. The readings of English Patient, Kincaid, and the au pair postcolonial post-Bronte novels are worth the price of any cultural studies and hyper-literary admission. The chapters on his father's aerial military work in US army situate the claims of globalized vision within an ethical and political frame that has scale, balance, pungency, and wit. This is a fine addition to the cultural criticism of globalization, without the arrgonace or aridity of social science sway: NYU Press can be applauded for its "Cultural Front" series, and this suavely wrought synthesis of feeling global and national, being cosmopolitan yet entangled in American dirty roots.