The Real American Dream
Andrew Delbanco
We once hoped in God, then we hoped in the United States and now — what is left as a source of hope? ‘The narcissistic self,’ as Delbanco calls it, is the last place we can look. But when an entire society looks inward, it leads to a community characterized by post-modern melancholy.
Without a transcendent hope and truth there is not enough in the self to sustain us.
