“Our need is not for restoration but for transformation.” Samuel Moyn on America at 250.
On Mathew Arnold, and his liberal Target (John Bright)
with shout outs to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @jcherniss.bsky.social
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Margaret, let’s talk
Interesting review and much good summary, albeit with several outright errors (starting with the epigraph source). Class reductionism for the win again. newrepublic.com/article/2115...
Or maybe a universal presumption of good faith obviates assessing to how everyone is ideological and there is no ideologically pure scholarship on politically important historical matters.
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Your father would definitely apparefiste this as a gift a.co/d/07g7pkjW
[G]eneral intelligence, as Monsieur Renan calls it, or, in our own words, a reference of all our operating to a firm intelligible law of things, was just what we were without, and that we were without...
The excellent and rich review from @JamesChappel is the best version of class-reductionism and refusal of intersectionality on this topic I've seen. I don't think the fact that age is mutable settles the debate: the oligarchy does not "happen" to be old. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Samuel Moyn on the semiquincentennial and why nostalgia can’t meet the moment.
