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Is there an American mind?

By Alliance Alert

Allen C. Guelzo, writing at National Review Online: "The America of Tom Paine 'was a country of diversity and vastness,' but also of 'vagueness.' This 'vagueness' Goetzmann assumes to be a virtue in its own right, since it permitted Americans 'to constantly redefine themselves' for a century after Paine 'in search of an ideal ? freedom.' At last, in the 1890s, Americans invented Pragmatism, which turned this incessant reinvention into a philosophy of its own, whose chief accomplishment was to abolish any 'moral guides' on reinvention. The chief accomplishment of American thought is thus to free itself ? from thought."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 15, 2009 (boomark / email).