Charles Lucy, “Landing of the Pilgrims Fathers” (1848) This paper traces the idea of America as a “city on a hill” (along with its variants of American chosenness,…

Left: William F. Buckley Jr., Right: Milton Friedman I. Introduction The following meditation concerns the meaning of American conservatism on the level of its core animating ideas, with…

Left: Robert George, Right: Cornel West Introduction  The following essay engages some of the key proposals of an American progressive alternative conceived out of a dialectical exchange between…