The American Minervan

Tag: Humanities

  • Threat to the Humanities, the Right’s Identity and the Limits of American Civilization

    Threat to the Humanities, the Right’s Identity and the Limits of American Civilization

    MODERN CRITICISMS OF THE HUMANITIES THREATEN REPUBLICAN TRADITION Americans often have ideas of how our society should be structured without really understanding the roots of the ideas that our thinking brings out. Political slogans and speeches are often in memorialized moments using the terminology every American citizen kind of understands without having to think too…