Category: History

Hoist On His Own Petard – James Bowden

In the mid 1980s, I was the associate director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw, a job furnished by Indiana University and the Polish government, the first of which sent me there in exchange for Warsaw sending to IU Bloomington an associate director of Polish Studies.

A Sense of History โ€“ James Bowden

“No one will say that a lively sense of history is one of the intellectual virtues of the American people,” wrote Lionel Trilling in his introduction to ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐‘ƒ๐‘Ÿ๐‘œ๐‘๐‘’๐‘Ÿ ๐‘†๐‘ก๐‘ข๐‘‘๐‘ฆ, a collection of very high-level essays on Great Books of the Western Tradition.