Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a...bout how to be a good member of a community, to define the common good and to repair the social contract. And we also found that while prosperity does not trickle down from the most powerful to the rest of us, all too often indifference and even intolerance do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethos ... where you have the values of cour...age and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This sense of otherness is the single most pernicious force in American discourse. Its not-like-us ethos makes so much bigotry pos...sible: racism, sexism, homophobia. It divides the country as surely as the Mason-Dixon line once did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) moved from a legitimate to a charismatic role, reversing the course followed by Washington. Yet there ...were surface similarities in their careers. Both led military rebellions against English monarchs--Cromwell against Charles I, Washington against George III. Each took local militia--the "train bands" of Cromwell, the colonial levies of Washington--and forged professional armies on a national scale. Each infused a new ethos in his troops--a religious spirit in Cromwell's case, a post-colonial American identity in Washington's.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »