The Americans have no sense of doom, none whatever. They do not recognize doom when they see it.
Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.
Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
Healing requires a legitimated, credible and culturally appropriate system.
there is no problems, only solutions".
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that...
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the soul.