How clearly do you see the weakness in a shallow response to a deep problem? How decisively do you expose any aporia with the potential to shift the topography of your political world and reconfigure the lines separating friends and enemies?

Do you have the integrity and courage to make common cause with your adversaries when communion serves the possibility of shared truth? How deep into the unstable foundations of human knowledge do you have the heart to go?

He finds anthropological accounts of ‘other’ cultures fascinating and intellectually thrilling. He finds most discussion of American culture to be unconvincing arguments against ’straw man’ positions lacking traction with his own experience.