• What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

    Lewis H. Lapham: What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?
    Lewis H. Lapham (1997). “Waiting for the Barbarians”, p.31, Verso