Equality Before Egalitarianism
- patricklewisbaker
- Nov 27, 2023
- 1 min read
Updated: 4 days ago
I've long admired Gordon Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution as a model of intellectual history. I have compelled numerous undergraduates to read it in a seminar called “Republics and Republicanism” which I gave for a decade with my colleague Harvey Mansfield. The book was first published in 1991, but is newly relevant to our present moment since the radicalism of the American Revolution and the American Founding in general has become in recent years a contentious topic both among progressives and conservatives…