The Ideas That Made America

<h4>Michael Kimmage is an associate professor of history at Catholic University. He is the author of In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy, and The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, as well as the translator of Wolfgang Koeppen's Journey through America.</h4>

Michael Kimmage

We Hold These Ideas to Be Self-Evident

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
— Blaise Pascal

Religion

"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think." — Lorraine Hansberry

Philosophy &amp; Religion

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Roth Unbound

Philip Roth, Feminist

Michael Kimmage is an associate professor of history at Catholic University. He is the author of In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy, and The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers and the Lessons of Anti-Communism, as well as the translator of Wolfgang Koeppen's Journey through America.