"There are three big world pictures that are very important for understanding American life right now," he says. "The first is one that most of you as college students right now are having a kind of intimate exposure to." It's not incredibly powerful in the country as a whole, but it is incredibly powerful in what we think of as our elite institutions and news outlets. The second picture combines high-minded humanitarian ambition with a strident thirst for justice.

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