Sara Doskow

Contact at sbd2102@columbia.edu


/ December 2, 2007 5:06 am

New History, Old History

“History has an ebb and flow of justice, but history also has a visible direction set by liberty and the Author of Liberty,” President Bush remarked in his second inauguration speech. There is a reference to God here, but also, perhaps, a reference to Hegel. For Bush, the “visible direction” is, indeed, very visible: “We are the nation that saved [...]