4 Comments
User's avatar
тна Return to thread
Jane Elder Wulff's avatar

I like "hard-of-thinking" - like hard-of-hearing - a useful way to approach the terribly sticky problem of how to revive a sense of community among Americans (and I'm not talking about "bipartisanship" - the damage doesn't stop, the desecration of language continues even as the desecrator shrivels away)

Expand full comment
TPJ (MA)'s avatar

Some people are hard of hearing, others are hard of listening.

Expand full comment
Susan Lorraine Knox's avatar

Welcome back TPJ! I missed you.

Expand full comment
TPJ (MA)'s avatar

Thanks Susan. For two months I've been deep-diving into 20C European history, both reading and writing, prompted by concerns arising from several years' normalization of political violence -- disturbingly like the Nazis during the Weimar Republic. (Also buying relevant used books at an appalling rate.) Dr R doesn't write about Europe much, unlike e.g. Tim Snyder or Mark Mazower. So more time goes to them and their colleagues, less to LFAA. If only we could read every good book, and avoid the baddies.

Expand full comment