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Program 60: America: Liberal or Conservative?

The Center's John Cogley observes that the unwillingness of the American people to decide in any final way whether they are liberal or conservative is, in fact, the basis of our strength and stability and the reason why our national character has always been non-ideological, inconsistent, paradoxical, and ambiguous. Spring 1963. [CSDI program number 60; UCSB tape numbers A7576/R7, A7577/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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