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The American Problem: Comfort With Moral Contempt

Mike Magee “The (American) problem runs deeper. Americans are not just skeptical of institutions. Many appear increasingly likely to judge their fellow citizens as morally bad. That is a different and more corrosive problem. Distrust can make people cautious. Moral contempt makes cooperation feel naive, compromise feel dangerous, and reform feel futile. They dehumanize so […]

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