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Daily Archives: May 3, 2021
Michael Anton (Claremont School) vs Brion McClanahan (Chronicles mag) (5-3-21)
00:00 Rejecting the ‘Proposition Nation’, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139054 03:00 Michael Anton vs Brion McClanahan, https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/rejecting-the–proposition-nation-/ 06:00 Michael Anton: Can the veterans of the old conservative wars come to a truce?, https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/01/americans-unite/ 17:30 The American Identity, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138772 33:20 Bill Gates n Steve Jobs … Continue reading
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Rejecting the ‘Proposition Nation’
Brion McClanahan writes for Chronicles: In January, Donald Trump’s President’s Advisory 1776 Commission released its 45-page “1776 Report,” which, according to The New York Times, is “a sweeping attack on liberal thought and activism that…defends America’s founding against charges that … Continue reading
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The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
Here are some highlights from this 2015 book: * “I belong on the edge of a story,” Didion once said. Temperamentally, she is a reader, not an on-the-spot reporter or a stringer chasing witnesses down the street. In 1976 she … Continue reading
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Trickle-Round Signals: When Low Status Is Mixed with High
From The Journal of Consumer Research: * While high-status individuals can afford to depart from the norms without penalties because of their blanket social acceptance, middle-status individuals are more concerned because their position is less certain (Feshbach 1967; Hollander 1958; … Continue reading
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