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Therefore, as in all social fears, there will be an increasing belief in the coming decade that the federal government is in the hands of conspirators.

The thing that at the time was on many of my colleagues’ minds as a new kind of inquiry—the kind of fashionable kick that so often appears to stimulate our intellectual life—was technological innovation, what Schumpeter called “the gale of creative destruction,” or, more simply, what happens when you change the machinery.

If Perkins, the Progressive turned New Dealer, spent her life addressing problems left behind by Greeley’s Civil War generation—corporate power, exploited labor, political corruption, poverty—Rustin spent his battling injustices that the New Deal generation didn’t address: racism, segregation, and the threat of militarism to world peace. No one in

To the extreme reaches of the radical left, to those who dared to believe that some sort of second American Revolution was actually imminent, these years constituted a brief shining moment, perhaps its last. To others, the bombings were nothing more than homegrown terrorism; the excesses of the radical left during the 1970s helped nudge America tow

Pour Hofstadter, ce qui caractérise tous les mouvements dont il parle est l’insatisfaction à l’égard du monde tel qu’il est : Pour l’Américain moyen de l’ère progressiste, cette chose hideuse qui se présentait comme la réalité n’était pas le dernier mot. La réalité était une série de complots indicibles, d’iniquités personnelles, d’échecs moraux qu

Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Che

Walter Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”

to the end that the office might be powerful and the officer insignificant,