The Legacy of “The Closing of the American Mind”
There can be no question of the signal importance and influence of The Closing of the American Mind. Any future historian who proposes to explain the “culture…
There can be no question of the signal importance and influence of The Closing of the American Mind. Any future historian who proposes to explain the “culture…
The communitarian movement has arisen as an effort to address the evident and growing deficiencies of modern liberalism, which seems unable to think beyond the sovereign autonomy…
In this glowing encomium is also buried a sober warning. Such a complex government would, Tocqueville observed, “be ill adapted to a people which has not been…
American history needs to be seen in the context of a larger drama. But there is sharp disagreement over the way we choose to represent that relationship.…
We Americans need to know our history. And we need to know it far better than we have in the past. We are not a people bound…