Arguing that both the Right and the Left "have adopted a worldview based on fears of subversion and predation," Jenkins criticizes the dualistic rhetoric of American politics. Refusing to engage in culture-war polemics, he recognizes with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that "the line between good and evil runs through each human heart."
Friday, March 31, 2006
Against the Manichaeans
John Schmalzbauer in Books & Culture reviews Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America by Philip Jenkins.
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