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sharlappalachia's review
3.0
Read for American Imagination: From the Gilded Age to the Cold War. Makes sense as a philosophy of progressivism, fails to defend progressivism as a whole. If tradition is disregarded, Lippmann offers the best next action.
banandrew's review against another edition
3.0
Mini-review: Drift and Mastery is an intellectual's view into American society one hundred years ago. It's dense, but short and worth reading for the perspective alone. This book tackled "current" issues at the time, largely around how society should transition from a farming life "where the only immigrants were babies and only emigrants the dead" to a modern, technologically-driven, scientifically-informed society where women have independent roles and business is a newly larger entity.
Assorted ideas of Lippmann's that have not come to pass:
* Predicting that most household work (cooking, cleaning, raising kids <5 yo) will go the division-of-labor route and become "cooperative"
* Advocating for a safety net that frees people from economic concern as the best way to both enable better citizens and to rationalize public debate
* Religion having a diminished role in societal thought
Assorted ideas of Lippmann's that have not come to pass:
* Predicting that most household work (cooking, cleaning, raising kids <5 yo) will go the division-of-labor route and become "cooperative"
* Advocating for a safety net that frees people from economic concern as the best way to both enable better citizens and to rationalize public debate
* Religion having a diminished role in societal thought
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