The Twilight of the American Enlightenment

Short Review: Books like this remind me of the importance of good history. The thesis is that the upheavals of the 1960s were predicted by the cracks in the foundation of American cultural hegemony. The intellectuals of the 1950s were transitioning into a post-modern world (which has taken 50 years to really filter down to culture). That transition prevented the intellectuals from charting a focused common path for the United States which a culture of progress wanted from the cultural elite. So the cracks in the White Protestant cultural dominance started which led to the more radical breakdowns of culture in the 1960s and 1970s.


My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/twilight-of-american-enlightenment/