Why I'm torn on the 'Muslim ban.' My new piece for @TheAtlantic:https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/06/trump-travel-ban-supreme-court/564044/ …
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How should we use analogies? Yes, Korematsu and Jim Crow were also "legal." But to think that the travel ban will be remembered like Korematsu 70 years from now is to assume that morality is never fixed and that it is always, necessarily, progressive *and* retroactivepic.twitter.com/7lx6x8dYH0
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This is also where
@PatrickDeneen's conception of "fractured time" becomes quite important From 'Why Liberalism Failed': https://books.google.com/books?id=4kbVAQAACAAJ&q=fractured#v=snippet&q=fractured&f=false …pic.twitter.com/zucN2T73FC
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Analogy-mongering has become an epidemic. Not everything is like the worst thing that's ever happened in human history. Sometimes things are just bad. And it's enough for things to be bad, without being worse than bad
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This is the worst goddamn tweet I've ever read.
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