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Overdoing Democracy

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Overdoing Democracy

A friend of mine was dreading Thanksgiving because her family is politically divided. She asked how she would navigate the hostilities that were likely to emerge over dinner. Her advice: Just send an email saying, you know, remember what Thanksgiving is about. It's not for politics. That's a strange thought that there couldn't just be a family gathering where everybody understood that the point of the activity was something else," he says. "It's democratically very unhealthy that we see everything as implicated in our politics"

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