A lifetime ago, I took a couple of courses in American Civ from William Goetzman; Amazon nudged that memory by noting his Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism had come out. Although not getting much read lately, I ordered it. Yesterday, AL linked to a discussion in The Chronicle of Higher Education (which supports AL). Carlin Romano’s “Obama, Philosopher in Chief” uses Goetzmann as foil. Romano summarizes the historian’s arg
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