Assignment for Monday, 9/24

Besides starting work on your Essay Assignment, read (and, if you want, summarize) Seymour Martin Lipset's article, "Still the Exceptional Nation?" I handed out copies in class. If you missed class, however, you can obtain a copy from the online holdings of the library; it was published in the Winter 2000 issue of the Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2000, Vol. 24, Issue 1, beginning p. 31).