In 1924 the philosopher Horace M. Kallen published a collection of essays under the title Culture and Democracy in the United States. It was here that Kallen first introduced the name cultural pluralism for the ideas he had previously put forward in his well-known 1915 essay “Democracy Versus the Melting-Pot.” All the essays in the book were written and most of them previously published between 1914 and 1924, a decade that Kallen described as “one of the most critical ten-year periods that the Republic has ever passed through.”[1] In describing the decade as a protracted crisis catalyzed by the First Read more