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Ideas of Adam Gopnik, by Text
[American, fl. 2019, Writer for the New Yorker.]
2019
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A Thousand Small Sanities
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p.39
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Liberal community is not blood ties or tradition, but shared choices, and sympathy for the losers
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p.40
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23125
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Most good social changes are incremental, rather than revolutionary
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p.47
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23126
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Conservatives often want peace, prosperity and tolerance, but not social fairness
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p.72
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23127
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Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups
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p.81
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23128
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The opposite of liberalism is dogmatism
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p.84
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23129
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Right-wingers attack liberal faith in reason, left-wingers attack its faith in reform
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p.96
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23130
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Popular imperialism gives the poor the belief that their acts have world historical meaning
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p.100
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23131
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Patriots love their place, but nationalists have a paranoid ethnic hostility
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p.102
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23132
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Conservatives believe obedience and rank are essential to social order
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p.103
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23133
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Cosmopolitan liberals lack national loyalty, and welcome excessive immigration
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p.149
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23134
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A 'free' society implies a free market, which always produces predatory capitalism and inequalities
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p.153
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23135
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Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie
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p.154
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23136
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Liberal free speech is actually paid speech
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p.161
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23138
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Modern left-wingers criticise liberalism's control of culture
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p.166
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23139
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Liberalism's attempt to be neutral and colour-blind erases cultural identities
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p.170
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23140
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Environmental disasters result not from capitalism, but from a general drive for growth
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p.175
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23141
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Left-wingers are inconsistent in their essentialist descriptions of social groups
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p.191
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23142
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People are fallible, so liberalism tries to distribute power
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p.195
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23143
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Liberals have tried very hard to build a conscience into their institutions
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