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  • Against the Rhetoric of Rage: Speeches of Hope

    We have all had our fill of rage in the speeches and messages vomited forth by this regime. Last Tuesday’s State of the Union was an abomination. What it lacked in elegance it sought to make up in length; what it lacked in aspiration it sought to make up in vitriol.

    Though we’ve become inured to the poverty of thought and the slackness of expression from this gibbering sack of petty grievances, spite, and hatred, we must remember that Americans are capable of greater things—and greater rhetoric.

    At its best, political rhetoric reminds us of the grandeur of our ambitions, the humanity we share, and the collective effort we must undertake. There are countless examples to choose from, but this week I propose four classic expressions of American hope: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech; George Washington’s “Farewell Address”; Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “First Inaugural Address” (“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”); and Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 “Farewell Address” (the “Military-Industrial Complex” speech).

    Please read at least a couple of these carefully. Consider what these speakers believed about human nature—and what they hoped America and Americans could become. And this time, bring a specific passage or two that you find especially powerful, whether for its political insight, its rhetorical craft, or simply the way it makes you feel about the country and its possibilities.

    Let’s talk together about our aspirations for one another and for the United States.

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  • Pubs, cafés, and the far right

    Pubs, cafés, and the far right

    We’ve all been struggling with a basic question: how do we explain the rise of the extremist right? Many of the answers we’ve come up with are deeply unsatisfying: incomplete, simplistic, or just not consistent with evidence.

    But there’s some interesting work on the decline of what we might call pluralistic sociability: face-to-face contact with people. I’m spurred to think about this because I heard coverage of research by Hugo Subtil, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich.

    Subtil has been doing some fascinating work on the decline of the French café—the “bar/tabac.” (France24 has a brief discussion here; the full article—in French—is in the reading list below.) What he has sought to do is to make connections between the decline of these semi-public spaces and the rise of the extreme right in France. He writes,

    Local democracy builds itself in the spaces where citizens encounter each other and form opinions on concrete interactions. [Translation mine].

    By eliminating a place where people meet each other face to face, the decline of the café has eroded the social fabric, and the resulting isolation, alienation, and anomie lead seemingly inexorably to the far right.

    That is a dreary lesson—but Subtil ends on a much more optimistic note.

    The results… offer a glimmer of hope: public action can reverse this trend. Targeted interventions aimed at preserving or rebuilding local social infrastructure can help reduce support for the far right. The erosion of social cohesion is not inevitable.

    So this month, as the public gathering of Minnesotans to resist the alienation imposed on this region by the federal government continues, I’d like to focus our attention on how meeting with strangers—in pubs, cafés, reading groups, churches—can help renew our sense of decency and kindness.

    I’ve included a few readings: two research pieces, by Subtil and Diane Bolet, that focus on the decline of public spaces (cafés and pubs); a couple of newspaper accounts of those pieces; and a piece from the Financial Times that takes a look at the political philosopher Michael Sandel and his his focus on community.

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