В Атлантике эссе какого-то нью-йоркского либерала, который отдал ребенка в public school, и в результате впал в сомнения и ересь. Неглубоко впал, со всеми ритуальными плевками в Трампа, но тем не менее. Дело доходит до таких абзацев, например:
I asked myself if I was moving to the wrong side of a great moral cause because its tone was too loud, because it shook loose what I didn’t want to give up. It took me a long time to see that the new progressivism didn’t just carry my own politics further than I liked. It was actually hostile to principles without which I don’t believe democracy can survive. Liberals are always slow to realize that there can be friendly, idealistic people who have little use for liberal values.
Весьма познавательное чтение, хотя и очень длинное. Особенно финал там читается оптимистически, где его сын после очередного идеологического вливания спрашивает – “Isn’t school for learning math and science and reading, not for teachers to tell us what to think about society?”
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