Chatting About Evil

peals to ascetic and scholarly ideals andnthe liberal culture's hedonism, Epsteinnnotes a thematic continuity betweennthem. They all attack the allegedly dehumanizingneffect of men's ceaselessnstriving for worldly advancement andnsingle out their own country for specialnblame. Because of a success fixation,nAmericans, it is claimed, have ignorednhigher cultural values and . . .