So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.