In 1969, Irving Kristol was appointed Henry R. Luce professor of urban values at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He delivered his inaugural lecture the following spring. Its title, ...

THE AMERICAN SPIRIT — Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard—Macmillan ($5). . This book is a summary of American thought and American civilization from John Adams to Franklin Roosevelt. As the fourth ...

We are now in a crisis of American civilization fully as dangerous and real as the crisis of the U.S. Civil War or World War II. During both those crises, if America had lost, it would have ceased to ...

We are now in a crisis of American civilization fully as dangerous and real as the crisis of the U.S. Civil War or World War II. During both those crises, if America had lost, it would have ceased to ...

“Civilization is an occasional and temporary interruption of the jungle.”—Will Durant. “Civilization” or “being civilized” are not terms that are wholly easy to define. Vagaries and degrees can exist; ...