We Are Not Special, and There Is No Happy Ending: The Blood-Drenched Darkness of American Exceptionalism
The myth of “exceptionalism” has cut a wide swath in the American consciousness, all to the bad, but its roots lie buried in the conceits of England itself. <> YOU MAY NOT REGARD the two propositions in my title as deserving of any special attention. You may think, entirely correctly, that if we as Americans [...]


