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(Reblogged from theamericanscholar)
A liberal, as I use the term, is someone who never gives up trying to see the other person’s point of view. A liberal never stops doubting himself, for self-doubt is precisely what allows us to make room in our minds for someone else’s views and to keep the possibility of communication between us alive. A fundamentalist, on the other hand, is someone to whom the very idea of point of view is immaterial, or worse—the foundation of relativism. A warrior who pledges fealty to the god of one Truth, a fundamentalist searches for personal conviction, not mutual understanding.
Using his personal relationship with political pariah Scooter Libby as a backdrop, Nick Bromell devulges his thoughts on the liberal/fundamentalist divide that has gripped our country since the end of Cold War.
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(via theamericanscholar)
