Published on this date
In 2023
"How ‘I despise, therefore I am’ locks in the political status quo"
"... George Santayana’s description of a barbarian: someone who thinks his passions are their own excuse for existing."
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"... expect American politics to continue today’s remarkable condition: boiling but frozen."
~ cf. Ezra Klein's word "calcification" in "Three Theories That Explain This Strange Moment", 2022-11-12