Tag: American history

So conservatives don't read Hofstadter because it's uncomfortable. Liberals don't read him because they're living in what he considers a ...

Notice that these are optimistic values, liberating values. They're the values of 1776, and of 1860, and of 1932. A ...

Is a "Great Depression" around the corner? Maybe not, but something very like it is already enveloping all of us. ...

Progress comes in small steps. You have to see under the surface to see it. And it can be infuriating, ...

American politics runs in generational cycles. We can go back nearly 200 years and find identical patterns. A crisis leads ...