"Let us repeat once again: "Freedom and Culture" is not philosophy, but brilliant philosophical journalism. Her topic is quite specific. This is the topic of civil liberties in America in our time. In the formulation of questions, and in the analysis of them, and in the conduct of thought, Dewey remains true to himself and his methodological views in it. The historical situation is taken. "It is evident; it is evident as a whole; its individual elements are obvious, and their active incompatibility with each other is obvious." The composition of this situation also includes "ready-made assumptions," socio-historically conditioned false and disloyal thinking skills, biased opinions, sympathies and antipathies, traditional ideas about concepts that have entered the blood and flesh (including the principles and forces of social development). "This complex of conditions that complicate the foundations on which people communicate and coexist is summarized in the word Culture," The task of the analyzing reflection is to revise this complex in order to "establish what kind of culture is so free in itself that it conceives and generates political freedom as its companion and consequence" "