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It would have been nice to reference second city bureaucrat's substack. He has written extensively on this topic and is a great resource.

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The project of this blog is to lift right wing righter's thoughts while domesticating them for a midwit centrist audience. Hence the silly and spurious jab at MAGA people thinking they're oppressed (silly - that is how leftists think!)

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This was great. I'd never heard of Cuddihy or the Fox/Lion dichotomy, but it rings true (even if I'm partial to Berlin's foxes). I often say, "elites need to preach what they practice." Separately, I think a culture of self-deprecation could explain at least some of our babymaking malaise (and wrote about here https://www.therandomwalk.co/p/random-walk-at-night-its-babymaking)

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The reduction in civility accelerated with the illegal discrimination in colleges against hiring Republicans. Won’t get better until there are 30% or more Republican professors at all top colleges.

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Nice introduction to Second City Bureaucrat's articles.

Good primer on some key topics. Cuddihy's Ordeal of Civility is hard to find but worth it.

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