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“One must always strive to be as radical as reality itself.”
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“Then again, it's the whole Reagan program, isn't it -- dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can't you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity --”
― Vineland
― Vineland
“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Clinton was Reagan's greatest achievement. He carried forward the Republican agenda by combining a postindustrial fatalism—regulation wasn't possible, austerity was unavoidable, budgets had to be balanced, crime was a condition of culture, not economic policy—with a folksy postmodern optimism.”
― The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
― The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
“The Jacksonian consensus was powerful. It unleashed market capitalism by stealing Indian property and celebrated a minimal state, even as it increased the capacity of that state to push the frontier forward. During the first half of the nineteenth century, until Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860, a series of Jackson's successors continued to unite slavers and settlers under a banner of freedom defined as freedom from restraint—freedom from restraints on slaving, freedom from restraints on dispossessing, freedom from restraints on moving west.”
― The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
― The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Zach’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Zach’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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4,583 friends
3,002 books
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690 books
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116 friends
1,154 books
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80 friends
102 books
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71 books
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79 books
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341 books
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42 friends
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