Dangerous Convictions — Allen '67 Banners & Pennants including Spenser

including Spenser

So Conceived and So Dedicated offers relevant and fruitful answers to the nation’s intellectual history and suggests that antebellum modes of thinking remained vital and tenacious well after the Civil War

man who worked across multiple disciplines to envision an interconnected nation

Chris Dercon

Dangerous Convictions — Allen '67 Banners & Pennants including SpenserBy Tom Allen '67 The debt ceiling debacle of 2011 was clear evidence of the dangerous polarization of American politics. Heedless of the warnings of economists, a majority of Republicans in the House refused to allow the Treasury to borrow enough money to pay for spending already ordered by Congress. The government avoided a catastrophic default only by unprecedented legislative contortions. The debt ceiling fight also showed that the two parties