To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If w...
Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.
In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tra...
America cannot turn its back on the economic future and women-owned businesses are part of that future.
She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came with having too much food: a sated belly gave Americans time to worry that their child might have a rar...
If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do all things possible to make it to heaven!
America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America...
Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.
I wanted to be his dear, his darling.
He was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms c...
Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.
That strange blend of the commercial traveller the missionary and the barbarian conqueror which was the American abroad.
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an ath...
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsew...
A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard a town atheist and a few Democrats.
It is the police of America who are on the front lines, who are on the streets, who are in the daily contact with American citizens, who translate the dreams of American citizens when they succeed and...
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