A funny thing happened when I published my last book in the Netherlands this September. It’s a 140-page essay titled Wat wij van Amerika kunnen leren, which translates as What We Can Learn from America. I had been prepared for negative reactions, people denouncing the...
What does the American Dream mean today? That was the topic of a major conference Roosevelt University hosted Sept. 12-15 at its Chicago Campus attended by 1,008 people. At more than a dozen lectures and discussions, leading American scholars, activists and...
