American Inquisitors

Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781351532686

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American Inquisitors by Walter Lippmann Pdf

American Inquisitors is one of the small gems among Walter Lippmann's larger books. Written in response to the trials of John Scopes and William McAndrew in 1925 and 1927, this volume contains a succinct analysis of a basic problem of democracy: the conflict between intellectual freedom and majority rule. In both cases, the state, acting in the name of popular sovereignty, sought to suppress teaching that was contrary to the tenets of religious fundamentalism and patriotic tradition. In distilling the arguments surrounding both trials, Lippmann sounds a warning against the tyranny of the majority and challenges people to rethink their theories of liberty and democracy.American Inquisitors consists of five related dialogues, each exploring a different dilemma at the heart of democratic political theory. The first two establish the principles of majority rule and freedom of the mind in the persons of William Jennings Bryan and Thomas Jefferson, with Socrates urging a reexamination of all principles..These dialogues debate the will and the rational capacity of the people to rule and demonstrate the relative nature of freedom in democratic society.The third and fourth dialogues set a fundamentalist against a modernist and an Americanist against a scholar. Lippmann resists easy stereotyping and puts challenging insights and plausible arguments into the mouths of all the parties. These dialogues ask whether commitment to community comes before intellectual inquiry, 'or whether the search for truth precedes identity. The final dialogue, between Socrates and a conscientious teacher, attempts to define the mission of teaching and determine when and how to face the consequences of truth. Lippmann concludes that the program of liberty is to deprive the sovereign of absolute and arbitrary rule. Taken as a whole, the dialogues constitute an essential consistency within Lippmann's political thought, and delineate a recurring problem hi American politcal culture. American Inquisit

Author : Benjamín VICUÑA MACKENNA
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019063711

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F. Moyen; or, the Inquisition as it was in South America. Translated from the Spanish ... by J. W. Duffy by Benjamín VICUÑA MACKENNA Pdf

Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412816963

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American Inquisitors by Walter Lippmann Pdf

Thomas Jefferson is a character in a recurring "Dialogue on Olympus" as the author ponders the irony of the man who professes to be Jefferson's most loyal disciple acting as a prosecutor in the Scopes trial. Socrates, however, has the last word. --Frank Shuffelton

Author : Griffin Fariello
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393346411

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Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition by Griffin Fariello Pdf

A remarkable document of an era that permanently changed the American political landscape.

Author : W.H. Rule
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : History
ISBN : 9785877859937

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History of the Inquisition by W.H. Rule Pdf

Author : William Harris Rule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Inquisition
ISBN : BL:A0019063761

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History of the Inquisition by William Harris Rule Pdf

Author : George Alexander Kohut
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Inquisition
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034317789

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Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America by George Alexander Kohut Pdf

Author : Jonathan Zimmerman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226820392

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Whose America? by Jonathan Zimmerman Pdf

In this expanded edition of his 2002 book, Zimmerman surveys how battles over public education have become conflicts at the heart of American national identity. Critical Race Theory. The 1619 Project. Mask mandates. As the headlines remind us, American public education is still wracked by culture wars. But these conflicts have shifted sharply over the past two decades, from religious issues to national ones, marking larger changes in the ways that Americans imagine themselves. From the Scopes Trial over evolution in the 1920s through battles over school prayer in the '80s and '90s, the twentieth century's bitterest school battles were tied to questions of faith. By contrast, America forged truces over history instruction by adding new groups to a shared patriotic story of freedom and progress. Jonathan Zimmerman forecast as much in his 2002 book, Whose America? Twenty years later, though, Zimmerman has reconsidered: arguments over what American history is, what it means, and how it is taught have exploded with special force in recent years, whether over Confederate monuments, the naming of buildings and institutions, or the very definition of patriotism. In this substantially expanded new edition, Zimmerman meditates on the history of the culture wars in the classroom--and on what our inability to find common ground might mean for our future.

Author : John Michael Francis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1210 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851094264

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Iberia and the Americas [3 volumes] by John Michael Francis Pdf

This comprehensive encyclopedia covers the reciprocal effects that the politics, foreign policy, and culture of Spain, Portugal, and the American nations have had on one another since the time of Columbus. From the discovery of Newfoundland and Labrador by Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte Real in 1501 to the phenomenal Hollywood careers of Spanish movie stars such as Antonio Banderas and Penelope Cruz, Iberia and the Americas traces 500 years of Iberian influence on the Americas and vice versa. Featuring six introductory essays and a chronology of key events, this three-volume encyclopedia examines more than five centuries of transatlantic encounters. Students of a wide range of disciplines, as well as the lay reader, will appreciate this exhaustive survey, which traces Spanish and Portuguese influence throughout the Americas and highlights how Iberian cultures have in turn been enriched by the diverse cultures of the Americas.

Author : Ken I. Kersch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521010551

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Constructing Civil Liberties by Ken I. Kersch Pdf

This book provides a revisionist account of the genealogy of contemporary constitutional law and morals.

Author : Mark Thomas Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192648211

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Walter Lippmann by Mark Thomas Edwards Pdf

Walter Lippmann was arguably the most recognized and respected political journalist of the twentieth century. His "Today and Tomorrow" columns attracted a global readership of well over ten million. Lippmann was the author of numerous books, including the best-selling A Preface to Morals (1929) and U.S. Foreign Policy (1943). His Public Opinion (1922) remains a classic text within American political philosophy and media studies. Lippmann coined or popularized several keywords of the twentieth century, including "stereotype," the "Cold War," and the "Great Society." Sought out by U.S. Presidents and by America's allies and rivals around the world, Lippmann remained one of liberalism's most faithful proponents and harshest critics. Yet few people then or since encountered the "real" Walter Lippmann. That was because he kept crucial parts of himself hiding in plain sight. His extensive commentary on politics and diplomacy was bounded by his sense that America had to adjust to the loss of a common faith and morality in a "post-Christian" era. Over the course of his life, Lippmann traded in his fame as a happy secularist for the stardom of a grumpy Western Christian intellectual. Yet he never committed himself to any religious system, especially his own Jewish heritage. Walter Lippmann: American Skeptic, American Pastor considers the role of religions in Lippmann's life and thought, prioritizing his affirmation and rejection of Christian nationalisms of the left and right. It also yields fresh insights into the philosophical origins of modern American liberalism, including liberalism's blind spots in the areas of sex, race, and class. But most importantly, this biography highlights the constructive power of doubt. For Lippmann, the good life in the good society was lived in irreconcilable tension: the struggle to be free from yet loyal to a way of life; to recognize the dangers yet also necessity of a civil religion; and to strive for a just and enduring world order that can never be. In the end, Lippmann manufactured himself as the prophet of limitation for an extravagant American Century.

Author : Evonne Levy,Kenneth Mills
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292754157

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Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque by Evonne Levy,Kenneth Mills Pdf

Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African traditions. This dynamism of motion, relocation, and mutation changed things not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, creating a transatlantic Hispanic world with new understandings of personhood, place, foodstuffs, music, animals, ownership, money and objects of value, beauty, human nature, divinity and the sacred, cultural proclivities—a whole lexikon of things in motion, variation, and relation to one another. Featuring the most creative thinking by the foremost scholars across a number of disciplines, the Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque is a uniquely wide-ranging and sustained exploration of the profound cultural transfers and transformations that define the transatlantic Spanish world in the Baroque era. Pairs of authors—one treating the peninsular Spanish kingdoms, the other those of the Americas—provocatively investigate over forty key concepts, ranging from material objects to metaphysical notions. Illuminating difference as much as complementarity, departure as much as continuity, the book captures a dynamic universe of meanings in the various midst of its own re-creations. The Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque joins leading work in a number of intersecting fields and will fire new research—it is the indispensible starting point for all serious scholars of the early modern Spanish world.

Author : William Rule
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368835965

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History of the Inquisition by William Rule Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Author : William Harris Rule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11184992

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History of the Inquisition from Its Establishment in the Twelth Century to Its Extinction in the Nineteenth by William Harris Rule Pdf

Author : William Harris Rule
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z255785207

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History of The Inquisition from Its Establishment in the Twelfth Century to Its Extinction in the Nineteteenth by William Harris Rule Pdf