Sublime

There is no natural or neutral way to organize society—our democracy and economy are the products of human choices, and it is within our power to change them.

Ken McCarthy,

For the same reasons that Lane noted in observing that no government has ever been able to monopolize violence on the sea, it is even less likely that a government could successfully monopolize an infinite realm without physical boundaries.

What does one conclude, in the final analysis, about this remarkable man? Surely, the Northwest will never again witness an individual with such sweeping power, simply because the unique opportunity provided by an opening frontier and a transportation monopoly will never again appear. It is entirely appropriate that the prime passenger train from C

The transformations of the 1970s broke up the old party alignment and with it the two relatively stable narratives of getting ahead and the fair shake. In their place four rival narratives have emerged, four accounts of America’s moral identity. They have roots in history, but they are shaped by new social arrangements, new ways of living. They ref

Yet writing in the 1963 foreword—before the Immigration Act—Baltzell was already pointing out that “[s]ince [Teddy] Roosevelt’s day, America has become, at all levels of society, the most ethnically and racially heterogeneous nation on earth.”4

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Ellen Cousins researches fraud for trial lawyers. Her research naturally roams from medicine to business. She has wide-ranging interests on the side, from collecting historical artifacts to embroidery, laser etching, and lock picking. She conducts pro bono research on military veterans who should (and sometimes do) get upgraded to the Medal of Hono