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American religious pluralism, however imperfectly practiced, is centuries older than the European commitment to purging anti-Semitism, which is younger than Israel itself. (p 222)
The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America (2021)
Multiracial democracy is hard and messy and sometimes rude, but it is preferable to the alternatives (p 77)
The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America (2021)
The invention of the police is like the invention of race; memory and history have conspired to make the recent seem eternal. And yet both are recent innovations. (p 254 "Abolish Police Unions")
The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America (2021)
Since the Civil War, American Jews have built a place for themselves here much the way other minorities have-by holding the United States accountable to its own principles (p 210)
The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America (2021)