Defining America Series Archives ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Progressivism and Democracy

By Mark Malvasi|2019-03-10T14:45:13-05:00March 10th, 2019|

Could democratic government solve, or even effectively address, the problems of a modern society? For decades, this question vexed Progressive reformers as they navigated the transformation of the United States from a country of small farms and rural communities to a nation of factories, corporations, and cities. Before the Civil War, Americans never doubted [...]

Defining America

By Mark Malvasi|2019-02-10T21:04:20-05:00February 10th, 2019|

What older societies expressed in myth, custom, and tradition, Americans established through scholarship, in a heroic effort to sustain a national character and national consciousness that were often more ephemeral and certainly more elusive than they may at first have appeared or than Americans have been wont to believe… There is nothing new in [...]