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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: 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: 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;
July 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Quotes: 28 January 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sgreenle...

Continuing with Arendt on “Truth & Politics” and some initial thoughts from the new book Robert D. Kaplan published today: THE WASTE LAND: A WORLD IN PERMANENT CRISIS (2025).
January 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM