Judging by most of the political discourse, reality television, TMZ, tabloids newspapers and magazine and some social networking, it might be safe to argue that we are a nation of philistines. Yet long time social critic Carlin Romano, in his new work America the Philosophical

argues just the opposite; that we are perhaps the most philosophical nation in history.

My conversation with Carlin Romano:

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