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Pulling Ourselves Together
Michael Briand (2019) Writing in the New York Times in 2016, months before the election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency, columnist...
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Sep 17, 202319 min read
The American Dilemma, 2020
In Black-White Relations: The American Dilemma, economist Junfu Zhang offers this summary of Gunnar Myrdal's seminal work, An American...
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Jul 1, 20208 min read
Why Can't We Think Straight?
In her essay in the New York Times (“In the Land of Self-Defeat,” Oct. 8, 2019), Monica Potts reflects on life in her hometown, Clinton,...
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Oct 23, 20198 min read
The Need for a Vaccine against Alternative Facts
From “The Real Horror of the Anti-Vaxxers,” by Frank Bruni, The New York Times, Mar. 9, 2019. …The parents who are worried or sure about...
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Mar 11, 20192 min read
Partisanship, Lack of Personal Integrity, and the Threat to Democracy
From "Conservatism’s Monstrous Endgame," by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Dec. 17, 2018. …Reed O’Conner, a partisan Republican judge...
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Mar 10, 20193 min read
Two Views of the Family, Two Worldviews, Two Political Orientations
…We are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. — Matthew...
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Mar 10, 20195 min read
Meritocracy and Our Political Predicament
From "How Meritocracy and Populism Reinforce Each Other's Faults," by Ross Douthat, The New York Times, Dec. 18, 2018. [In the Atlantic...
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Mar 10, 20192 min read
What We Might Learn from Young French Conservatives
From “Two Roads for the French New Right,” by Mark Lilla, The New York Review of Books, Dec. 20, 2018. In France, a “third force” form of...
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Mar 10, 20198 min read
The Problem with Educated Neoliberals
A comment on “An expert class and the grassroots,” a post by Peter Levine, Jan. 11, 2019. (https://peterlevine.ws/?p=20829) PL: “The...
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Mar 10, 20193 min read
An Exchange on Reviving the Rural Economy
From “The Hard Truths of Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy,” by Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, Dec. 12, 2018. The election of...
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Mar 10, 20196 min read
A Two-thirds Majority Should Be Enough
From "The Oppression of the Supermajority," by Tim Wu, The New York Times, March 5, 2019. We are told that America is divided and...
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Mar 10, 20192 min read
Sympathy and the Tea Party
From "Inside the Sacrifice Zone," by Nathaniel Rich, The New York Review of Books, November 10, 2016. As the country’s major political...
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Mar 9, 20195 min read
The Problem with Democrats
From "Can We Have a ‘Party of the People?" by Nicholas Lemann, New York Review of Books, October 13, 2016. …Explaining why American...
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Mar 9, 20194 min read
Seeing What We Want to See
From "Seeing Trump Through a Glass, Darkly," by Peter Wehner, October 7, 2017 …In political debates we assume wisdom resides with us and...
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Mar 8, 20192 min read
Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!
We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your...
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Jan 20, 20191 min read
Design a Stunning Blog
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Jan 20, 20191 min read
Grow Your Blog Community
With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog...
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Jan 20, 20191 min read
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