Sunday, December 22, 2024

Tag: exceptionalism

The surprising pervasiveness of American arrogance

We Americans are all beneficiaries of exceptionalism, even those of us who decry its corrosive impact.

The United States is exceptional

But not in the ways any of us should want.

We-are-not-them exceptionalism

The making of a lost generation.

Socialism as a Cure for Exceptionalism

A sense of exceptionalism drives our foreign policy, and distances the 'takers' in the 1% from the more social-minded and once-thriving middle class. Will political revolution envisioned by Bernie Sanders restore that social-mindedness?

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