Civic Virtue: Making America American

Extremism, racism, nativism, and isolationism, driven by fear of the unknown, tend to spike in periods of economic and social stress-a period like our own. Americans today have little trust in government, household incomes lag behind our usual middle-class expectations. The fires of fear in America have long found oxygen when broad, seemingly threatening change is afoot.

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Author of 31 books and hundreds of professional articles, Arthur L. Finkle teaches on the graduate and undergraduate faculty of Kean University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Rotary Club, and Trenton-Princeton-Bucks Jewish Historical Society and the Greater Jewish Cemetery Project.