We Americans are largely united in core principles - or are we?  We're anti-government and anti-authority - all of us?  Our differences - or "disharmonies" - are varying expressions of our shared core principles - or are they?  George Will wrote an interesting and provocative article in yesterday's Washington Post about America's history of "creedal passion."  Will borrowed extensively from the late scholar Samuel P. Huntington's writings to make his points.  The upshot of Will's analysis is that America has entered a fifth period of creedal passion.  The other periods were "the Revolutionary era (1770s), the Jacksonian era (the 1830s), the Progressive era (1900-20) and the 1960s."  One wonders how the 1850s and the Civil War should be designated, but that's for another day.  The "creed" is the anti-government and anti-authority beliefs that Americans have held from the Revolution onward. ...(Read Full Post)