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Quotes: 7 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... @Jonathan Rauch on the value of our legal system; @Thomas PM Barnett on security vs. defense & China; Lasch re post WWI, the new elites, & ego psychology; Gary Saul Morson on deep questions in lit;
Quotes: 7 August 2025
Defend out legal system!
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August 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Quotes: 7 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... @Jonathan Rauch on the value of our legal system; @Thomas PM Barnett on security vs. defense & China; Lasch re post WWI, the new elites, & ego psychology; Gary Saul Morson on deep questions in lit;
Quotes: 6 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Pope Francis on climate change; @Francis Fukuyama on liberalism; Barry Gewen quoting Robert Dallek on Reagan & Kissinger; Jacob Heilbrunn on FDR vs. Lindbergh; Lasch on populism; Ed Simon on Faustus; Michael Dirda on Ruskin;
Quotes: 6 August 2025
Encyclical on Climate Change and Inequality
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August 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Quotes: 6 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Pope Francis on climate change; @Francis Fukuyama on liberalism; Barry Gewen quoting Robert Dallek on Reagan & Kissinger; Jacob Heilbrunn on FDR vs. Lindbergh; Lasch on populism; Ed Simon on Faustus; Michael Dirda on Ruskin;
Quotes: 5 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Iain McGilchrist citing Arendt; Rachel Maddow on Huey Long; Robert D. Kaplan on pity for the tyrant & on the Middle East; Wills on Lincoln re the Declaration; Robert Kagan on Lincoln, the Declaration, & the Constitution;
Quotes: 5 August 2025
Iain McGilchrist & more!
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August 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Quotes: 5 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Iain McGilchrist citing Arendt; Rachel Maddow on Huey Long; Robert D. Kaplan on pity for the tyrant & on the Middle East; Wills on Lincoln re the Declaration; Robert Kagan on Lincoln, the Declaration, & the Constitution;
Quotes & C/Sites: 4 August. 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Lots from @Thomas PM Barnett today re China, the U.S., & us; Lasch on elites & Middle America; Steven Hahn on the Enlightenment & racism; Arendt on the now between past & future; Ed Simon on Faust;
Quotes & C/Sites: 4 August. 2025
Featured guest Thomas PM Barnett
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August 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Quotes & C/Sites: 4 August. 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Lots from @Thomas PM Barnett today re China, the U.S., & us; Lasch on elites & Middle America; Steven Hahn on the Enlightenment & racism; Arendt on the now between past & future; Ed Simon on Faust;
Quotes: 3 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... @Jonathan Rauch quoting Madison & Pierce; Homer-Dixon quoting Emerson & Eliot & the Cartesian model; Lasch on the minimal self; Steve McIntosh on the costs & benefits of modernity; Niebuhr on Machiavelli;
August 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Quotes: 3 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... @Jonathan Rauch quoting Madison & Pierce; Homer-Dixon quoting Emerson & Eliot & the Cartesian model; Lasch on the minimal self; Steve McIntosh on the costs & benefits of modernity; Niebuhr on Machiavelli;
Quotes: 1 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arendt on action, secularization, & history; @Timothy Snyder on freedom; Roger Scruton on the face vs. “objectivity;” Wills on Washington’s Fabian strategies; @Thomas PM Barnett on the value of immigration to the U.S.;
Quotes: 1 August 2025
The Life of the Mind
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August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Quotes: 1 August 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arendt on action, secularization, & history; @Timothy Snyder on freedom; Roger Scruton on the face vs. “objectivity;” Wills on Washington’s Fabian strategies; @Thomas PM Barnett on the value of immigration to the U.S.;
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... My thoughts about ON HUMAN NATURE by Roger Scruton. A compelling read.
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
An essay in philosophical anthropology (even if he doesn't call it such)
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July 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... My thoughts about ON HUMAN NATURE by Roger Scruton. A compelling read.
Quotes: 28 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Wrapping up Tolstoy on history; Gary Saul Morson on guilt, innocence, & “realism;” Arendt on power, violence, and comprehension; @Iain McGilchrist on magic and Zeno’s paradox via Bergson;
Quotes: 28 July 2025
War and Peace
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July 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Quotes: 28 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Wrapping up Tolstoy on history; Gary Saul Morson on guilt, innocence, & “realism;” Arendt on power, violence, and comprehension; @Iain McGilchrist on magic and Zeno’s paradox via Bergson;
Quotes: 26 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... More of Tolstoy on history; Collingwood in materialism; Robert D. Kaplan on Shakespearean decline; @Timothy Snyder on emotions; Lasch on debates & mass media & on narcissism; Madison on the risks & benefits of a standing army;
Quotes: 26 July 2025
It's All-Star Sunday!
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July 27, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Quotes: 26 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... More of Tolstoy on history; Collingwood in materialism; Robert D. Kaplan on Shakespearean decline; @Timothy Snyder on emotions; Lasch on debates & mass media & on narcissism; Madison on the risks & benefits of a standing army;
Quotes: 24 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Tolstoy on history; Wills on cemeteries; Arendt on facts & politics & on the Leader; Pankaj Mishra on constraints; Homer-Dixon on egotism & buildings; @Thomas PM Barnett on the Middle East; & Robert Anton Wilson on the crisis of values.
Quotes: 24 July 2025
Tolstoy & more
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July 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Quotes: 24 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Tolstoy on history; Wills on cemeteries; Arendt on facts & politics & on the Leader; Pankaj Mishra on constraints; Homer-Dixon on egotism & buildings; @Thomas PM Barnett on the Middle East; & Robert Anton Wilson on the crisis of values.
Quotes & Suggestions: 22 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Tolstoy’s opening paragraphs on hx from W&P; @Timothy Snyder on self-governance; Colin Wilson on freedom; Lasch on individualism & therapeutic culture; Gary Saul Morson on the importance of literature for Russians;
Quotes & Suggestions: 22 July 2025
Special guest: Leo Tolstoy
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July 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Quotes & Suggestions: 22 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Tolstoy’s opening paragraphs on hx from W&P; @Timothy Snyder on self-governance; Colin Wilson on freedom; Lasch on individualism & therapeutic culture; Gary Saul Morson on the importance of literature for Russians;
Quotes: 21 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Hochschild on purchased political influence & American regionalism; Arendt on views of leaders & Nietzsche on the will; Gary Saul Morson on History & Progress; Homer-Dixon on capitalism;
Quotes: 21 July 2025
Purchased political influence is real, powerful, and at play, I think, but as an explanation for why any of us believe what we do, duping—and the presumption of gullibility—is too simple an idea.
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July 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Quotes: 21 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Hochschild on purchased political influence & American regionalism; Arendt on views of leaders & Nietzsche on the will; Gary Saul Morson on History & Progress; Homer-Dixon on capitalism;
Quotes: 20 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Hochschild on $ in politics; Timothy Snyder on the value of freedom; David Brooks on the Jacksonian Dems vs. Lincoln’s Whig party; Arendt on thinking contra evil; Lasch on arguments; Jonathan Rauch on judgment;
July 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Quotes: 20 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Hochschild on $ in politics; Timothy Snyder on the value of freedom; David Brooks on the Jacksonian Dems vs. Lincoln’s Whig party; Arendt on thinking contra evil; Lasch on arguments; Jonathan Rauch on judgment;
Quotes: 19 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arendt on politics & theatrical performance; Jill Lepore on 2 American nationalisms; Garry Wills on Lincoln & the Fathers; Wolfram Eilenberger on Wittgenstein; Lasch quoting Goffman; Robert D. Kaplan on Judt on the EU;
Quotes: 19 July 2025
The Origins of Totalitarianism
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July 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Quotes: 19 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arendt on politics & theatrical performance; Jill Lepore on 2 American nationalisms; Garry Wills on Lincoln & the Fathers; Wolfram Eilenberger on Wittgenstein; Lasch quoting Goffman; Robert D. Kaplan on Judt on the EU;
Quotes: 18 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Hochschild on Tea Party ironies; @Timothy Snyder citing Carl Schmitt re expanding “exceptions;” @Thomas PM Barnett on internal threats & demographics; Arendt on secret police & the logic of Hobbes;
Quotes: 18 July 2025
Strangers in Their Own Land
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July 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Quotes: 18 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Hochschild on Tea Party ironies; @Timothy Snyder citing Carl Schmitt re expanding “exceptions;” @Thomas PM Barnett on internal threats & demographics; Arendt on secret police & the logic of Hobbes;
Quotes: 17 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Aaron Sachs on dark times; Michael Dirda on Dostoyevsky & leisure; Gary Saul Morson on Turgenev & the writer’s duty; Arendt on humankind’s plight, & on progress & doom; @Lyndsey Stonebridge quoting Arendt;
Quotes: 17 July 2025
Up From the Depths
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July 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Quotes: 17 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Aaron Sachs on dark times; Michael Dirda on Dostoyevsky & leisure; Gary Saul Morson on Turgenev & the writer’s duty; Arendt on humankind’s plight, & on progress & doom; @Lyndsey Stonebridge quoting Arendt;
Quotes: 16 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Garry Wills on the creation of THE United States; Arendt quoting Augustine on the meaning of love; @Francis Fukuyama on neoliberalism; Gary Saul Morson on the reach of obligations; @Timothy Snyder on civil society as a form of politics;
Quotes: 16 July 2025
Lincoln at Gettysburg
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July 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Quotes: 16 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Garry Wills on the creation of THE United States; Arendt quoting Augustine on the meaning of love; @Francis Fukuyama on neoliberalism; Gary Saul Morson on the reach of obligations; @Timothy Snyder on civil society as a form of politics;
Andor & More open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... My thoughts on having just binge-watched ANDOR. Lots of help from Damien Walter & his Science Fiction Substack & YouTube videos--& FB page, Science Fiction. (Many thanks & compliments for his fine commentary.) Also featuring Karl Marx & Lewis Mumford.
Andor & More
Thoughts on the terrific series
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July 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Andor & More open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... My thoughts on having just binge-watched ANDOR. Lots of help from Damien Walter & his Science Fiction Substack & YouTube videos--& FB page, Science Fiction. (Many thanks & compliments for his fine commentary.) Also featuring Karl Marx & Lewis Mumford.
Quotes: 13 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Hochschild on “empathy walls;” William Ophuls on the need for a “ruling class;” Lasch on the self as “beleaguered;” Octavia Butler on the consequences of an imagined epidemic; @Seth David Radwell on “bottom up self-government;”
Quotes: 13 July 2025
Puttin' on our Sunday best
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July 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Quotes: 13 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Hochschild on “empathy walls;” William Ophuls on the need for a “ruling class;” Lasch on the self as “beleaguered;” Octavia Butler on the consequences of an imagined epidemic; @Seth David Radwell on “bottom up self-government;”
Quotes: 11 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Russell Hochschild on understanding & bridging divides; @Timothy Snyder on politics & the ecosphere; Arendt on knowing & thinking & truth & meaning; Stonebridge on Arendt on History v. politics; The Federalist on safety;
Quotes: 11 July 2025
Strangers in Their Own Land
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July 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Quotes: 11 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Russell Hochschild on understanding & bridging divides; @Timothy Snyder on politics & the ecosphere; Arendt on knowing & thinking & truth & meaning; Stonebridge on Arendt on History v. politics; The Federalist on safety;
In Defense of Politics: An Essay open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... An essay from the past, but one worth sharing here (or so I hope). It’s just what the title says, a defense of politics. (It doesn’t discuss Hannah Arendt, although her thought has influenced me greatly.
In Defense of Politics: An Essay
Some random thoughts from an earlier election
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July 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In Defense of Politics: An Essay open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... An essay from the past, but one worth sharing here (or so I hope). It’s just what the title says, a defense of politics. (It doesn’t discuss Hannah Arendt, although her thought has influenced me greatly.
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger & Mourning on the American Right: A Journey to the Heart of the American Political Divide by Arlie Russell Hochschild open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Russell Hochschild’s STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND (2016/2017 paperback w/ afterword). An outstanding work.
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger & Mourning on the American Right: A Journey to the Heart of the American Political Divide by Arlie Russell Hochschild
A close look at an ongoing disaster & the people who try to survive it.
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July 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger & Mourning on the American Right: A Journey to the Heart of the American Political Divide by Arlie Russell Hochschild open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Arlie Russell Hochschild’s STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND (2016/2017 paperback w/ afterword). An outstanding work.
Quotes: 8 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Henry Adams on the Virgin in not in America; James Burnham on Sorel & science; Collingwood on the good; Lasch on Josiah Royce & loyalty; @Thomas PM Barnett on vaccinations; Dr. Robert H. Lustig on moral hazard in modern medicine;
Quotes: 8 July 2025
The Collected Works of Henry Adams
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July 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Quotes: 8 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... Henry Adams on the Virgin in not in America; James Burnham on Sorel & science; Collingwood on the good; Lasch on Josiah Royce & loyalty; @Thomas PM Barnett on vaccinations; Dr. Robert H. Lustig on moral hazard in modern medicine;
Quotes: 6 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle...
Reinhold Niebuhr on freedom & Nature; Arendt on the role of personal loyalties (via appointments & favors) in the success of Hitler & Stalin; Jonathan Rauch quoting CS Pierce on knowledge; Arendt on thinking & on love & happiness;
Reinhold Niebuhr on freedom & Nature; Arendt on the role of personal loyalties (via appointments & favors) in the success of Hitler & Stalin; Jonathan Rauch quoting CS Pierce on knowledge; Arendt on thinking & on love & happiness;
July 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Quotes: 6 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle...
Reinhold Niebuhr on freedom & Nature; Arendt on the role of personal loyalties (via appointments & favors) in the success of Hitler & Stalin; Jonathan Rauch quoting CS Pierce on knowledge; Arendt on thinking & on love & happiness;
Reinhold Niebuhr on freedom & Nature; Arendt on the role of personal loyalties (via appointments & favors) in the success of Hitler & Stalin; Jonathan Rauch quoting CS Pierce on knowledge; Arendt on thinking & on love & happiness;
Quotes: 5 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... George Packer, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Hannah Arendt, & Christopher Lasch.
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Last Best Hope
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July 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Quotes: 5 July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle... George Packer, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Hannah Arendt, & Christopher Lasch.