After two centuries of reliance on a disparate and shaky foundation of Enlightenment and religious ideals, James Davison Hunter argues that America is exhausted. No longer can we turn to the sources of America’s ideals: some lay forgotten or irrelevant, while others are distorted for partisan advantage. Are there still bonds of solidarity to be found in the vestiges of America’s hybrid-Enlightenment? Or is America fundamentally flawed?

On Tuesday, April 15, at 6 PM join Professors Casey Blake and Richard John (Columbia) to explore the Enlightened exhaustion of the late twentieth century and twenty-first century. Reading: chapter pp. 252–277.