I don't think it's an accident that John Dewey's work has been rather unceremoniously and ineluctably placed in front of me just at the point at which I am increasingly surrounded by evidence that the social experiment on these shores has gone wrong, perhaps incorrigibly so -- and not at all in the context of abstract propositions and evidence; the event is to be drama, not treatise.
"Where the danger is, there the saving force grows."