Why John Dewey Should Matter to Historians
The role of knowledge and truth in the Constitutional order was Dewey’s central project
This essay was originally published on May 6 2019.
These Truths: A History of the United States is the book that Henry Steel Commager tried to write forty years ago, but did not. Commager’s 1979 volume, Empire of Reason, took seriously the Enlightenment foundation for the nation, but his account of the many ...
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