Tag: Loren Goldner
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America’s War Against Political Modernization, 1775-2020
Reading Time: 5 minutesAmerica’s political system has been described by Loren Goldner ((Goldner, Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man, Queequeg Publications, New York, NY, 2006)) and others as a Tudor Polity. The jury is still out on whether this was a positive or negative development. The United States’ System Compared to Great…
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Melville, Marx and Me
Reading Time: 3 minutesI criticized some of Loren Goldner’s statements in a previous post, but now I want to praise his ideas for other reasons. I appreciate his explanation for why American radicalism differs from European radicalism. America’s Unique Connection to the Old Testament Americans have a different historical perspective than Europeans. In Goldner’s words, …
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Who Are the Progressives’ Friends?
Reading Time: 5 minutesI’m not trying to end to our conversation with people in these categories. I’m trying to clarify the position of progressives by comparison with competing voices in the “progressive” movement. I put progressive in quotation marks because there are non-progressive participants in this movement. In fact, there are categories of participants that…