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Why we can’t just blame capitalism for everything

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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The Importance of Iconoclastic Intellectual Work

There's a lot of pessimism, a growing pessimism on the left for very good reasons about the viability of our constitutional system. But again, I still think people are more plastic than we often assume. And no one knows for certain what's politically possible and what isn't. We've got to avoid the impulse for purity and never let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

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