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Liberation and social justice have been bureaucratized.
Roger Scruton • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left
The goal of all this effort is a higher education that offers questionable learning, dubious fulfillment, likely indebtedness, but certain status. A rite endowed with so much importance and involving so little of real value resembles the brittle decadence of an aristocracy that’s reached the stage when people begin to lose faith that it’s the
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Hope in Democracy
Manny • 1 card

We haven’t outrun or outlived the plantation, although it looks a little bit different. Now the fugitives are from Central America, and the unfree laborers are in prison. Some kids are still hungry, even so many years after the breakfast programs and Head Start and all of the gains fought for by Black elected officials, because the gag is in the
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