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Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto
WHAT WE MAY lack is the sense of neighborliness. For me, the scariest thing about the last forty years, even more than the rising temperature, was the ascension of the libertarian idea that the individual matters far more than the society an individual inhabits. The New York Times called Ayn Rand (“altruism is incompatible with freedom”) the “novel
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community’s proximity to large rivers or oceans and the attitudes of its inhabitants toward foreigners and immigrants.
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