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“A Vast Sociopolitical Psychosis.”

Tell it like it is, David Brooks and Yuval Levin.

Ted Bauer
4 min readJun 23, 2023

David Brooks over at The New York Times has a new colum about some Dodgers controversy with the LBGTIA community that I totally had missed, and while that part is boring and tedious and indicative of many news stories over the past 10 years, there’s better stuff later in the column:

Here’s what I mean:

In a healthy society, the early-20th-century Dutch prime minister and theologian Abraham Kuyper observed, there are a variety of spheres, each with its own social function. There is the state, the church, the family, the schools, science, business, the trades, etc. Each of these spheres, he continued, has its own rules and possesses its own integrity and correct way of doing things. Each sphere is a responsible zone of…

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Ted Bauer
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