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  1. Per #CoreyRobin: Thomas ‘sees something of value in the social worlds of slavery and Jim Crow,’ not because he endorses bondage ‘but because he believes that under those regimes African Americans developed #virtues of #independence and habits of #responsibility, practices of self-control and #institutions of #patriarchal self-help, that enabled them to #survive and sometimes #flourish.’

    I’m understanding how #ClarenceThomas developed his renegade streak.

    theatlantic.com/magazine/archi

    h/t @HistoPol

  2. Quote of the day: "Only in an economy of one, where there is no exchange at all, do we make decisions like the rational actor of economics textbooks--which is why Robinson Crusoe is such a fixture of them" #CoreyRobin #NewYorkReviewOfBooks #AdamSmith #economics #Empathy

  3. Quote of the day: "Only in an economy of one, where there is no exchange at all, do we make decisions like the rational actor of economics textbooks--which is why Robinson Crusoe is such a fixture of them" #CoreyRobin #NewYorkReviewOfBooks #AdamSmith #economics #Empathy

  4. Quote of the day: "Only in an economy of one, where there is no exchange at all, do we make decisions like the rational actor of economics textbooks--which is why Robinson Crusoe is such a fixture of them"