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David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)

Conversations with Tyler

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The Wig Party: A Rediscovery

I think we would all recognize there's some level of stagnation in a society where at that point you have to take chances or make radical changes and conservatism becomes virtually impossible. My two heroes are Edmund Burke and Alexander Hamilton, who's a Latino hip-hop star from the Heights. And his conservatism was very different about dynamism, energy, transformational change. A European style conservatism doesn't work here. You have to have that dynamic recreated self-transformation element.

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