The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chro…

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so.

I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient …

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become…