Ezra Klein: belief

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…Oh, sure. That’s why they don’t have state capacity. But if you went to the Dutch, I don’t think you would see so much more enthusiasm, or try Luxembourg. Switzerland would be an outlier. I think the place where we probably disagree on this is that I think under conditions of threat, that would change very rapidly. I guess you could say this is definitely a view many people hold, which is that our societies have become soft under conditions of too little threat. You’re, of course, right about the extraordinary success the American military has integrating immigrants, integrating first-generation Americans. It’s again a reason why I think that part of JD Vance’s speech was, let’s call it unkind as a very low level, because plenty of people fight and die for this country who do not have seven generations buried in the same Kentucky graveyard, But at the same time, I think that there is something missing about it. Something that’s jogged for me is, you’ve read the book, Where Is My Flying Car? What is the name of the author? I’m just blanking on it at the moment. Storrs?…

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