“THE YOUNG are honorable and see the problems,” Paul Goodman wrote in 1968, “but they don’t know anything because we have not taught them anything.” Michael Brown’s wise and eloquent essay proves him wrong. The young know quite a lot, …
  
    
    
  
  
  
    Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth by Robert B. Westbrook, and Take Care of Freedom and Truth Will Take Care of Itself: Interviews with Richard Rorty, Edited by Eduardo Mendieta
  
    
    
  
  
  
    ATTORNEY GENERAL A. Mitchell Palmer had barely begun his roundup of foreign born radicals when alumni of the Greenwich Village “Little Renaissance” of the 1910s began to write the movement’s epitaph. Waldo Frank’s Our America (1919) set the tone for …