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These conditions, largely the result of decades of anti-government ideology, turn equality into a lie, and the lie deranges everyone. The way to begin reversing the deterioration is to show the American people that government can make their lives better. We’ve been ravaged by a short emergency—the pandemic and the depression-like conditions that it
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
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Jonathan Wolff • Ethics and Public Policy
The winners in Smart America—connected by airplane, Internet, and investments to the rest of the globe—have lost the capacity and the need for a national identity, which is why they can’t grasp its importance for others.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

Human rights issues came to prominence after 1980 and positively boomed after the events in Tiananmen Square and the end of the Cold War in 1989. This corresponds exactly with the trajectory of neoliberalization, and the two movements are deeply implicated in each other. Undoubtedly, the neoliberal insistence upon the individual as the foundational
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Identity protection left most of this group outside the places where knowledge and credentials came from—including all identities because most African Americans did not benefit from being “protected.”
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond


necessity of taking gender into account for scholars who seek to understand processes of democratization, the role of liberalism and illiberalism in our nation’s political development, or the way that international security concerns and political forces shape the domestic political landscape in the United States.