Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.
Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.