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Although most people do not consciously accept postmodernist doctrines, these doctrines may still reflect the working assumptions that most of us live by but refuse to acknowledge.

Babbitt holds up what he calls “our great unionist tradition” as the crucial “offsetting influence” to all the temptations to which democracies are particularly vulnerable.

Like Gamble and Babbitt himself, I think that the Progressives distorted the historical Lincoln. In my view, however, a careful study of the words and deeds of Lincoln reconfirms Lincoln’s moral and intellectual stature.

Literary interpretation is at its maximum free of dogma.

Until recently, the humanistic impulse has been central to literary criticism in the West. The works of twentieth-century American critics…

It is tempting to think of Irving Babbitt as a voice crying in the wilderness, a lonely prophet attempting the…