Enjoying the view from Limbo
The Village People are performing at the U.S. president’s inauguration celebrations. Very appropriate. The Village People are a group of campy, unmasculine performers who have built a popular entertainment career that has extended long past its sell-by date by donning the costumes of various “real man” types — the hard hat, the police officer, and so on — and dancing around while laughably...
Had I been an American citizen on November 5th, I would have voted for neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump. Unlike certain Democrats and other nihilists today, however, I do not deny the basic humanity or the right to live in my community of any actual American who felt compelled to come down on one side or the other that day. I understand...
Tolerance is not equivalent to approval or “acceptance.” On the contrary, the very notion of tolerance presupposes differences of opinion, disapproval of behavior, and perhaps even personal distaste. In a political context, tolerance entails a willingness to forego any legal objections against, or punishments for, beliefs or behaviors that are regarded as socially unorthodox or disagreeable to the common view, but which have...
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