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While I don\u2019t ignore its flaws and its dark patches, and while I\u2019m an enthusiastic student and expounder of a major non-Western tradition, I\u2019m also convinced that, on balance, Western civilization has been a very, very good thing for humanity.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Nobody who\u2019s paid much attention to this blog for any length of time will mistake me for\u00a0an enthusiastic fan of Donald J. Trump. \u00a0I am, as I\u2019ve been at pains to point out, a serious political conservative with libertarian leanings, and he\u2019s . . . \u00a0well, let\u2019s leave it at that. \u00a0 But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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