The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.