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how it is possible to continue believing

[...] These theological figures raise the question of how it is possible to continue believing or hoping when everything seems to run counter to belief, when circumstances are radically hostile to it. It is only natural that critical thinkers should feel the need to offer an answer to it. Experimen…

—p.30 The Defeat of Critical Thinking (1977–93) (7) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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the quintessential country of identity politics

Since the 1960s, the United States has been the quintessential country of identity politics. This phrase refers to policies – governmental or otherwise – aimed at promoting the interest, or combatting the stigmatization, of some particular category of the population. Identity politics aim to rehabi…

—p.23 The Defeat of Critical Thinking (1977–93) (7) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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in the beginning was defeat advice/living

In the beginning was defeat. Anyone who wishes to understand the nature of contemporary critical thinking must start from this fact.

From the second half of the 1970s, the protest movements born in the late 1950s, but which were inheritors of much older movements, went into decline. The reasons …

—p.7 The Defeat of Critical Thinking (1977–93) (7) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan