This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a ...

Brafford is right that one of the attractions of ideology is that it seems to offer “a schema for predicting the consequences of events.” I would emphasize that ideology only seems to do this ...

A new elite ideology has emerged that contrasts the ... Nigerian immigrant equally to those of a much richer native-born American.” The libertarian-inspired demonization of the nation-state ...

An ideology is a coherent set of related principles ... What really organizes American politics – and drives such furious divisions – is social identity, combined with geography and history.

for the American way of life to endure, freedom must prevail everywhere. What does this have to do with Obama? Well, of course, Obama accepts the ideology of national security completely ...

One faction of prospective nominees appears focused on revenge, another on calming markets and a third on relentlessly — ...

Yet, despite appeals to legal ideals, American international law policy is consistently criticised as fraught with contradiction and distorted by beliefs in 'exceptionalism'. These contested claims of ...