Young Americans are fearful of ideas, dissent, and especially a loss of social standing. This fear is not just a sickness of modern politics, it is ultimately an impoverishment of the soul.
My students are currently reading Herman Hesse’s book Siddhartha in their AP Literature class. I’m not their English teacher, of course, but I wonder if their approach to literature is different from their approach to politics.
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