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The businessmen who helped Hitler into power naïvely believed that they were only supporting a dictator, and one of their own making, who would naturally rule to the advantage of their own class and the disadvantage of all others.
“Low-income students stuck in schools located in high-poverty areas are surrounded by peers who, because they have had less opportunity, are typically less academically engaged and more likely to act out than those in schools in higher-income neighborhoods.”
― Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
― Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
“Especially troubling for me is the research that finds that liberal communities actually engage in higher rates of exclusionary zoning than conservative ones.”
― Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
― Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
“For me, the other compelling thread, which dates back to my college days in the 1980s, has been my growing recognition that liberalism—the political ideology I was raised in and still am most generally attracted to—has a serious elitism problem that needs correcting.”
― Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
― Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
“Things which ought to be taken for granted lose their force when they emerge in the form of arbitrary pronouncements….”
― Diplomacy
― Diplomacy
“I am for such a League provided we don’t expect too much from it…. I am not willing to play the part which even Aesop held up to derision when he wrote of how the wolves and the sheep agreed to disarm, and how the sheep as a guarantee of good faith sent away the watchdogs, and were then forthwith eaten by the wolves.”
― Diplomacy
― Diplomacy
Jason’s 2025 Year in Books
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626 books
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729 books
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495 books
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144 friends
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