A reader who comments under the name “candles” writes in the comments box of the Moralistic Therapeutic Journalism thread: There is a powerful strain in the academy in the humanities these days that ...
'It is human nature," Notre Dame history professor emeritus George M. Marsden writes in "The Twilight of the American Enlightenment," "to look back on an earlier era, especially the days of one's ...
A strange book. George Marsden, Bancroft Prize-winning author of “Jonathan Edwards: A Life” (2003), surveys postwar liberalism and its discontents in order “to reflect upon the problem of how American ...
The Twilight of the American Enlightenment: The 1950s and the Crisis of Liberal Belief, by George Marsden (Basic Books, 218 pp., $26.99) Marsden assumes that this view of middle-class American life ...
One of the most important and least remarked truths of modern history is that the British enlightenment came before the French, both temporally and intellectually. Himmelfarb's new book does full ...
As we kick off the year commemorating the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States Army, we’ll reflect on the rich legacy of service, highlighting events that marked periods in our ...
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