Conditions for the Creative Act
Because those living, working and playing in Manhattan were trapped between the East and Hudson Rivers, intellectual cross-fertilization was almost inevitable.
Marc J. Dunkelman, a Taubman Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, is the author of The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community, published by W.W. Norton.
Because those living, working and playing in Manhattan were trapped between the East and Hudson Rivers, intellectual cross-fertilization was almost inevitable.
Without the villages and congregations that once bound Americans of divergent views, a different, darker brand of politics is emerging, one with far fewer protections from a general conflagration.