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The quest for wisdom is a physical as well as intellectual undertaking…. [T]he early history of wisdom unfolded on the road.
Stephen S. Hall, Wisdom: From Philosophy to Neuroscience
We are living through a time of extraordinary nativist backlash, most tellingly emblematized in the U.S. by the candidacy, then presidency, of Donald J. Trump. A 2017 survey by PRRI and The Atlantic found that white working-class voters who said they “often feel like a stranger in their own land” were 3.5 times more likely to have supported Trump than Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Those who “favored deporting immigrants living in the country illegally” were 3.3 times more likely to have done so.
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