Daedalus articles from June 2000

Daedalus archives from June 2000

"Minnesota: A Different America?".
June 22, 2000... A QUESTION FREQUENTLY ASKED of the Editor is how issues of Doedalus originate, how the specific subjects are chosen. The answer is not a simple one. In this instance, the first time the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences has...

The History and Peopling of Minnesota: Its Culture.
June 22, 2000... THE STATE OF MINNESOTA has been described as being "at the top of the North American hill." [1] Its waters flow south to the Gulf of Mexico, east to the Atlantic Ocean, and north to Hudson Bay. Its environment mirrors this three-way division....

American people.
June 22, 2000... How are we living today? Of course, there is no "we" except for those who address us, advise us, praise us in the round, as "the American people." The phrase is a signal for the wary, doing as it so often does more honor to the exhorter and his...

Facing Minnesota.(intertwining history of settlers and Dakota Indians)
June 22, 2000... I QUIT MY JOB AT THE SUNSHINE FOOD STORES in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on August 12, 1968--my eighteenth birthday--and spent the next month sewing name tags on my clothes and packing and repacking my boxes of stuff to take to school. I could...

French cultural history.
June 22, 2000... Jimmy Carter and Alexander Solzhenitsyn may one day enjoy the unexpected privilege of having their names associated with a chapter of French cultural history: namely, that curious moment when the negative remodeling of the image of socialism in...

Minnesota, Real and Imagined: A View from the Countryside.(people and society)
June 22, 2000... MINNESOTA IS A DECENT PLACE TO LIVE. It is both big enough to be big and small enough to be small. Blessed with rivers and lakes, and three distinct ecological zones (prairie, coniferous forest, and deciduous forest), it abounds with parks and...

Minnesota: Nature's Playground.
June 22, 2000... MINNESOTANS HAVE FUN. We see our state as a place filled with opportunities for adventure, relaxation, and "edutainment." Frequently referred to as "the theater of seasons," the state's changing weather multiplies the varied landscapes by four....

Minnesota: A Work in Progress Shaping the Landscape and the People.
June 22, 2000... THINK OF MINNESOTA as a remote place on the North American continent--halfway between the equator and the North Pole, and midway between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Its location is remote from areas of older settlement, yet it is centrally...

Nations Within a Nation: The Dakota and Ojibwe of Minnesota.
June 22, 2000... IN 1967, WHILE TAKING A MANDATORY COURSE in Minnesota history in seventh grade, Don Day asked the teacher why he never mentioned American Indians in his lectures. The teacher told Don, and the class, that "Indians did not contribute to the...

Shakespeare's play.
June 22, 2000... "I love long life better than figs," Charmian, Cleopatra's attendant, says in Shakespeare's play. If things go on as we reasonably expect, young people will experience long life as an unruly challenge to morals, possibilities, fantasies. They...

Mixing New and Old Wine in Minnesota: Spirituality, Ecumenism, and Religious Traditions in Ferment.
June 22, 2000... OUT OF MINNESOTA'S PAST comes a creation Story that strikes a discordant note with present-day religious trends. In the cosmology of the Ojibwe, who migrated to the Minnesota region prior to the area's first European settlers, one story tells...

Policy and Politics in Minnesota.
June 22, 2000... IN A FEW GENERATIONS government in Minnesota has gone from conservative to radical to liberal to cautious to receiving leadership from a wrestler who says he stunned the world. [1] Governance in Minnesota has been distinctive and often...

The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object: Minnesota's Moralistic Political Culture Confronts Jesse Ventura.
June 22, 2000... WHAT MAKES MINNESOTA TICK, politically speaking? In the late 1980s one of the major political parties dumped its gubernatorial nominee because he (allegedly) swam nude with teenage girls eleven years earlier. The charge was never conclusively...

President John F. Kennedy.
June 22, 2000... If we take a broader view of the years since President John F. Kennedy issued his spirited summons to the nation, the overwhelming fact is that the entire religious realm--moral, spiritual, and attitudinal--has been so fundamentally altered...

Social Services: Minnesota as Innovator.
June 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION MINNESOTA HAS LONG HAD a reputation for a strong commitment to activist government and innovative social-welfare programs. State government over the years has been viewed as a positive instrument for the betterment of society,...

The twentieth century.
June 22, 2000... Anyone attempting to consider what Americans now understand about their relations with the world must begin with modesty, both in looking forward and in looking back. To ask what will happen to us on the world scene in the next twenty years is...

Dynamics of Corporate Philanthropy in Minnesota.
June 22, 2000... INTRODUCTION CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY has become a defining feature of Minnesota's civic life; a variety of explanations have been offered as to why business owners make public commitments to give away corporate profits for community...

Theater and the Arts: A Personal Reflection.
June 22, 2000... EVEN AFTER FIVE YEARS, Minnesota continues to surprise and fascinate me. Coming from Ireland to run the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, I expected that the frozen north would be a daunting environment for theater and the arts. I feared that...

Minnesota and the World Abroad.
June 22, 2000... THE ALMOST FOREIGN MINISTER IN THE SPRING OF 1991, with Yugoslavia on the brink of its slide toward bloody dismemberment, President Franjo Tudjman of Croatia prepared to welcome a new foreign minister into his cabinet. His name was Rudy...

Evolution of a society.
June 22, 2000... Exercises in previsioning the future may proceed either along the path of extrapolation from the present, or along the path of contradiction of it. In trying to foresee the next stage in the evolution of a society, whether one's own or another,...