On the Fall of American Modernity: Institutions and practices will be lost within a new world-cultural mix

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The subsiding of modernity may be liberating. Freed from the world center, we might find a safer place to survey an evolving humanity. No longer the object of all attack, we might productively rethink our national purpose. Old modernity’s institutions and practices will be folded into, and thus partly lost within, a new world-cultural mix. This may not be our preferred outcome. But losing our claim to the universal opens the way to new realities. We might take comfort that American modernity will be a part of them.

by Michael Vlahos

The Fall of Modernity:
Has the American narrative authored its own undoing?
February 26, 2007 Issue

The American Conservative