Friday, May 21, 2010

R.R. Reno gets optimistic

in this insightful review essay on Dakotas culture on the First Things website. Here's the payoff:

Thus my optimism, encouraged by my experience on the Great Plains. Most of us do not want to live in the political equivalent of a housing project administered by remote bureaucrats. Nor do we want to live in the political equivalent of the New York Stock Exchange where every dimension of civic life has a selling price. And because we don’t, if we are reasonably vigilant and energetic, odds are we won’t.

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