On May 21, 1988, eight people carried a coffin into Central Park to conduct a “funeral for the ’80s.” Inside it were items meant to represent the culture of the decade: a Rambo doll, tiny figures ...
Where once there was robust, enduring debate about the so-called Great Man Theory of History — from Thomas Carlyle to Herbert Spencer to William James, with bows along the way to Hegel, Nietzsche and ...