Tag: History

• June 20, 2025

  America’s Volksgeist And The Actuality Of Redemption

  In “Is America a Creedal Nation” (First Things June/July 2025, pp. 33-8), David P. Goldman offers a fascinating take on America’s Volksgeist. Just what is that glue, that something, that underlying creed that holds the American people together? Goldman’s answer: “Uniquely among the cultures of the world, it [American culture] is monothematic. It is obsessed…