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In Praise of Foreign Moods

Posted on August 1, 2010, 10:00 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

We should attend to what other countries do and think – just as they should be looking at us. Nobody’s too dumb to teach or too smart to learn, whatever Justices Thomas and Scalia may say. As antidotes to “exceptionalism,” consider the burqa — and consider Roman Polanski.

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