"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"Manifest Destiny and imperialism were traps into which the nation was led in 1846 and in 1899, and from which it extr…"

"With the age-old goal of universal prosperity within sight, we must question whether the methods—technological values…"

"Perhaps it is symbolic that Brook Farm, initially the most American of our Utopian communities, perished in a holocau…"

"Is it that we think the brain too small a place to hold more than one language at a time? That room for Spanish or Na…"

"Man is a symbol-forming organism. He has constant need of a meaningful inner formulation of self and world in which h…"

"I think that by constantly questioning what goes on around them, writers end up with the gift of foresight."

"Creative writing programs are an invention of American universities. In the Francophone world we believe that the pow…"

"Some of the al-Tusi material is known to have reached Rome in the 15th century... but there is no evidence that Coper…"