"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 …"

"In 2012, the Chinese sociologist Sūn Lìpíng (b. 1955) suggested the PRC [People's Republic of China] faced four possi…"

"Jao’s work assumes a deep understanding of Chinese history, literature, and archaeology that few have. But the reward…"

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

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"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…"

"...the anachronistic conception that Greece and Rome alone should be considered sources of culture for us, and that t…"