To a reader who has followed this author as long as I have, the text seems a culmination of his efforts to date, and I was glad the Rail gave me the opportunity to discuss it with him. We exchanged the following emails, lightly edited, while he was on the West Coast for research.
Considering the common U.S. reaction to 9/11, we must ask: Can the U.S. do without its exceptionalist consciousness? Or is this consciousness indispensable to America?
By Patrick Lawrence
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Mut zur Ethik is a forum associated with a publishing cooperative that holds con
Nothing stays the same and the sole thing you can bank on in history and life, too, is change, right? So let’s cut to the chase of this article, starting