The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt is one of the best, most erudite books to be published in years. If anyone wants to understand the differences between Blue staters and Red staters, this is the book that does it. Along with making a credible claim that Botticelli, Descartes, Shakespeare, Newton, Galileo, Thomas Jefferson, Montaigne, the philosophies, Greenblatt demonstrates how Lucretius created the secular culture that is behind the development of human liberty that...