At one point in The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow’s larky protagonist gets hooked up with an eccentric millionaire named Robey. Augie will, presumably, be his research assistant and, presumably, Robey will write a “survey or history of human …
Americans do not meditate on History; they dream about fresh starts and wide horizons. We are an impatient people, pragmatic to our bones, eager to get on with the business of getting on. It is hardly surprising that our response …
Socialist thought provides us with an imaginative and moral horizon.
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