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“Saving the world is a much more ambitious, ennobling, and ego-gratifying project than preserving the neighborhood.”
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
“how putting global concerns above national interests insidiously erodes the financial health, freedoms, and safety of Americans. In blunter terms, when American elites feel their first concerns are with the world community abroad rather than with the interests of their own countrymen, there are consequences for American citizens.”
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
“Cameralists frequently advocated what amounted to ‘a programme of total regulation’. Their regulations drilled deep, laying down the types of crop and trees to be cultivated, where bridges and hospitals should be built, what people should eat to keep them nourished, and so on.”
― The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
― The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
“In 2020 nearly eight billion diverse peoples dress, listen, talk, travel, and communicate in an increasingly homogenous manner that mostly follows the examples of those in the United States, Europe, many of the English-speaking former colonies of the British Empire, and the Asian democracies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.”
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
“the central problem with global elites remains a sort of retrograde tribalism. For all the grand talk of being citizens of the world, they really owe their limited allegiances only to like kind—westernized elites with proper credentials—or rather, to the systems and fonts of their wealth and success. They are like the royal families of Europe before World War I, incestuously related and essentially more akin to each other than to their constituents.”
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
― The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America
Joseph’s 2024 Year in Books
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