@Chris_arnade I feel bad now that I missed "Dignity" when it came out. Remedying that immediately
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Geoff Kabaservice
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Geoff Kabaservice
@RuleandRuin
Director of political studies at @NiskanenCenter. On Twitter, I speak for myself.
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This is a terrific post, full of hard-won insight about American culture -- and also a warning about the dangers of a society polarized by education
Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌@Chris_arnade
You can’t have a functioning county unless citizens share a thick cultural identity — for the US that’s the American Dream — a prosperity theology built from Western European ideas open.substack.com/pub/walkingthe…
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Say what you will about this Supreme Court, it’s the one branch of government that still affirms compromise and bipartisanship as constitutional necessities
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5. I lean toward the brokenists in this debate, but Damon Linker offers useful caution against the kind of cultural despair that can become "a breeding ground for excessive, almost utopian hopes for the future" that would a better world on the rubble
damonlinker.substack.com/p/rod-drehers-…
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4. This division arguably appeared at @MunSecConf with brokenist Mark Carney seeing an age of "rupture" vs. anti-brokenist Keir Starmer insisting "we must not disregard everything that has sustained us for the last 80 years" -- many such examples!
gov.uk/government/spe…
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1. My colleague @lindsey_brink identifies another "intellectual fault line" dividing the center: disagreement over the severity of the problems confronting contemporary liberal societies and the connection between those problems and the political crisis
brinklindsey.substack.com/p/links-and-so…
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A sad-making landmark of cultural decline
Alec MacGillis@AlecMacGillis
At the bottom of the front page of today's Washington Post. For the first Sunday in eons, there are no book reviews in the paper.
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@Tyler_A_Harper @TheAtlantic @BiellaColeman Hers struck me as one of the more rational and good-faith critiques of your article. Those of us on the other side of this divide will have to respond accordingly. (Congrats again on your piece, btw, it truly was a tremendous work of analytical journalism)
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@RuleandRuin @TheAtlantic I agree that this is the fault line though I'd just add that @BiellaColeman actually did me the kindness of engaging with what I wrote (rather than making assumptions about it) and while I don't agree with her on this issue I really appreciate that her response was in good faith.
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This pan of @Tyler_A_Harper's phenomenal piece for @TheAtlantic is just one example of an intellectual fault line dividing opponents of populist authoritarianism: Should we refrain from criticizing the left during this emergency? Or is such critique necessary for liberal revival?
Gabriella "Biella" Coleman@BiellaColeman
@Tyler_A_Harper I think this line of critique matters. But in the current climate, it risks amplifying the very hysteria it seeks to challenge. This strikes me as both the wrong moment and the wrong medium to try to shift people’s thinking on what is, in fact, an important issue
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1980s elite: Is ours more a guilt culture or a shame culture?
2020s elite: What is guilt? What is shame?
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I’ve started listening to the Vital Center podcast by @RuleandRuin This is a libertarian podcast, but I have to say, it’s deeply honest and I wanted to shout the host out. EVERY time he has a guest, he asks them where they grew up and what their parents did.
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America is a nation of offline moderates, ruled by a small fringe of online extremists.
This situation is wrecking our country.
noahpinion.blog/p/why-americas…
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“@yale was one of the few American institutions of any description that were strengthened rather than damaged by the upheavals of the 1960s…” — @ruleandruin
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@robkhenderson “they are generally made to feel so foolish or uncomfortable” — it’s the “made to” that needs an explanation there
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"For a university professor...the thought that anyone might experience intense status anxiety visiting an art gallery, or even just walking around a university campus, is so entirely foreign that most are blissfully unaware that anyone feels this way" philpapers.org/rec/HEAEAS-2
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@SenatorDanforth @greggnunziata Thanks! And I too am a fan of your avatar…
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@greggnunziata I’ll put in evidence the book @RuleandRuin by Geoff Kabaservice, which his excellent. I think he’d agree…
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People are always surprised when I say this, but in my experience with the Northeastern GOP, I found that the remnants of the Rockefeller Republicans were among the earliest and most enthusiastic converts to Trumpism; the descendants of the Goldwaterites and Reaganites resisted, and many still do.
Matt Forney@mattforney
This guy was a "liberal" "WASP elite" from New York who opposed mass nonwhite immigration, threw black people in prison, and created the nation's toughest anti-drug laws, so tough they weren't repealed until the 2010s. He was governor for nearly two decades. Go back to India.
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