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What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good.

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The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who informed me of this spoke only matter-of-factly, with no hint of the gossip’s wicked delight.

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The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal – are they capable of achieving it and are others capable of accepting it?

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June 5, 2024

The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal – are they capable of achieving it and are others capable of accepting it?

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June 5, 2024

The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the person who informed me of this spoke only matter-of-factly, with no hint of the gossip’s wicked delight.

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