For the historian, as for the philosopher, the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns is being superseded by a quarrel between the Moderns and the Postmoderns. If the great subversive principle of modernity is historicism—a form of relativism that locates the meaning of ideas and events so . . . . Continue Reading »
The Civil War A film by Ken Burns Shown as a PBS television series; also available on nine VHS videocassettes (11 hours). Individual purchases from Time-Life Videos, $180. Institutional price from PBS Videos, $350. Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James M. McPherson Oxford . . . . Continue Reading »
From time to time, a most unlikely book strikes the public imagination and becomes something of a best seller. A case in point is Donald Kagan’s Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy (Free Press). The book’s reception was undoubtedly aided by the triumph of democratic ideas so . . . . Continue Reading »
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