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The democratic ideas that spurred America's budding capitalists on were vigorously contested--and still are.

He was best known as the author of The Organization Man, but William H. Whyte, Jr., was also a leading anatomist of city life.

Far from a quixotic crusade, U.S. efforts to promote democracy abroad are part of a pragmatic "hidden" grand strategy.

A look at the work and legacies of the founders of scientific child rearing.

A challenge to the focus of most child-rearing theories.

Britain's eminent political philosopher on the character and career of one of America's great men of letters.

Despite its economic troubles, populist movements are making Brazil a more pluralistic nation.

An appreciation of the career of Eudora Welty, an essential American writer.  

Can too much democracy be a bad thing?

How a small band of anti-Stalinist intellectuals helped win the Cold War.  

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