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  1. This interview with Matthew Continetti gets especially interesting when they discuss the current state of the conservative movement, but the whole video is worth watching.
  2. “Americans are addicted to apocalypse porn,” writes Ben Sasse in WSJ. “These warnings cause a cortisol spike in the body politic and fry the nation’s nervous system, exhausting the citizenry.”
  3. Samuel Abrams on the rise of socialism: “If the problem is formation—and that certainly appears to be the case—the real answer is to rebuild what once formed young Americans into confident, connected participants in a free society.”
  4. ‘Citizens learn liberty the way they learn anything difficult: by practicing it, defending it, and living its reciprocal obligations (and in our time, I think too many of us forget those reciprocal obligations). “There is nothing more fruitful in wonders than the art of being free,” Tocqueville writes, “but there is nothing harder than apprenticeship in liberty” (p. 229), says L. Lynne Kiesling.’

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