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William F. Buckley had spent the previous decades decreeing what conservatism meant—and purging entire classes of dissenters who argued to the contrary.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
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Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
pragmatist.
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
And where there is room for interpretation, there is always room for political persuasion.
Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.
Zohar Atkins • The Liberal Arts Are Dying Because Liberalism is Dying
a Web culture where discourse is dominated by the reaction to (and the rejection of) other people’s ideas, as opposed to generating one’s own.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
It seems to me that if this conservatism is so foul that many of my peers are embarrassed to be working at the same magazine, then I have no idea what version of conservatism could ever be tolerated.