By George M. Marsden
Within the aftermath of worldwide battle II, the U.S. stood at a precipice. The forces of modernity unleashed through the warfare had ended in surprising advances in lifestyle, yet expertise and mass tradition additionally threatened to erode the country's conventional ethical personality. As award-winning historian George M. Marsden explains in The Twilight of the yankee Enlightenment, postwar americans regarded to the country's secular, liberal elites for assistance during this precarious time, yet those intellectuals proved not able to articulate a coherent universal reason in which the USA may possibly chart its path. Their failure misplaced them the religion in their materials, paving the way in which for a Christian revival that provided the US a company new ethical vision—one rooted within the Protestant values of the founders.
A groundbreaking reappraisal of the country's religious reawakening, The Twilight of the yankee Enlightenment indicates how the United States chanced on new goal on the sunrise of the chilly conflict.
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In 1956, he wrote a pamphlet, The Light Grows Brighter (Burton, 1956) on the nature of democratic socialism in Australia (at that time the Australian Labor Party (ALP) was undergoing significant internal debates and conflicts about direction and stance), and in a preface to that pamphlet Evatt commented about Burton and the times: John Burton has already made contributions of value to the defence of basic freedoms in Australia. He resisted the onset of McCarthyism and helped beat it back. Like many others he underwent and surmounted the ‘ordeal by slander’ which is the very essence of McCarthyism.
It was detached from such social sciences as were in place in UCL, but they were in any case in something of a minority in an institution dominated by sciences and humanities. In terms of the permanent staff, they did not amount to a critical enough mass. In the interim, Dennis Sandole was brought in to assist with the teaching workload, other lecturers having already left. John Groom had moved on to the University of Kent at Canterbury. Burton, now nearing official retirement, followed him to Kent and so, in effect, did the teaching nexus because, as the operation wound down at UCL, it grew at the new university in Kent.
106), a point almost certainly recognised then, and later, by Burton himself. Burton did not stay long in Colombo, for an election had been called in Australia. Burton returned to Australia almost immediately to stand as a candidate in the election, having already been preselected as a Labor Party Candidate for a New South Wales constituency. He fought it, and lost Thus ended a major episode in Burton’s life. He was not yet thirty-five years old, but had been educated, served as a civil servant, assisted in policy-making, advised senior ministers, influenced them both directly and indirectly, made friends and enemies, resigned and resigned again, and then lost an election.