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When we treat it as axiomatic that small towns have no use or place for such people, that if you have ever liked a French movie you had better just hurry to the nearest city, we forget that part of being a community is leaving room for the diversity of human nature.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
Americans believe in the reality of “race” as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • Between the World and Me
outside the mainstream,
Jamelle Bouie • Opinion | The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird’
It is also almost impossible to expect large numbers of people to think in terms of principles, to understand the profound difference between “I don’t approve of this” and “this should be illegal.” At least, however, we have the First Amendment. Europe is an entirely other matter.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The freedom of disregard.
Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
deleterious
Arthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
“Tenor Madness,”