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Puritans, Both Foreign and Domestic
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Puritans, Both Foreign and Domestic

The problem is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do what they think we should do.

Jonah Goldberg
Dec 2, 2020
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Gavin Newsom speaks at a press conference on homelessness in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. To the right is Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf. The city will receive 15 unused FEMA trailers to use as temporary housing for homeless people. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has. been criticized for not following his own COVID guidelines. (Photograph by Jane Tyska//East Bay Times/Getty Images)

One of the enduring European criticisms of America is that we are too prudish, too moralistic, and too idealistic. Unlike our weltschmerz-besotted betters across the pond with their turgidly tragic theater …

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