Tag: The Night Watchman

Let This Book Give You Heart

June 5, 2025December 18, 2025 Peter Starr

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Lastly, if you should ever doubt that a series of dry words in a government document can shatter spirits and demolish lives, let this book erase that doubt. Conversely, if you should be of the conviction that we are powerless to change those dry words, let this book give you heart.

Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman

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In Praise of Small Sanities

June 5, 2025December 18, 2025 Peter Starr

No wise liberal has ever thought that liberalism is all of wisdom…. Liberalism isn’t a political theory applied to life. It’s what we know about life applied to a political theory.

Adam Gopnick, In Praise of Small Sanities

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