Author: E.L. Doctorow
E.L. Doctorow�s novels include World�s Fair, City of God, and, most recently, The March (2005). His selected essays, Creationists, was published in 2006.
The White Whale
What does it say about the United States today that this fellowship of the arts and sciences and philosophy is called to affirm knowledge as a public good? What have we come to when the self-evident has to be argued as if—500 years into the Enlightenment and 230-some years into the life of this republic—it …