Future tense : the lessons of culture in an age of upheaval / edited by Roger Kimball. - New York : Encounter Books, 2012. - ix, 229 p. ; 24 cm.

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America resumed, 9/11 remembered / Michael J. Lewis -- Is America Periclean? / Victor Davis Hanson -- A Prometheus bound / Andrew Roberts -- America & the angels of Sacre-Coeur / David Bentley Hart -- Everybody gets rich / Kevin D. Williamson -- Under the scientific bo tree / Anthony Daniels -- What's a museum? / James Panero -- Enter totalitarian democracy / Andrew C. McCarthy -- Out of the wilderness / Charles Murray.

We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America's economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed. Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment of which Hegel spoke: a time when many of the traditional assumptions about the shape and future of culture are suddenly in play. As The New Criterion embarks on its fourth decade of publication, the magazine commemorates its commitment to the civilizing values of informed criticism wi

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Primera Jornada de Catalogacion.
Civilización moderna--Siglo XXI.
Estadounidenses--Condiciones sociales--Siglo XXI.
Estados Unidos--Características nacionales.
Civilization, Modern--21st century.


Estados Unidos--Civilización.
United States--Civilization--21st century.

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