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I’ve been reading through your e-mails about your preferred Editors’ Blog posts, and amongst the perhaps lots that are most typically discussed, there are 3 styles I desired to emphasize, duetothefactthat they each relate to a main measurement of our politics today.
The veryfirst is the post on “bitch-slap politics” which I composed in 2004; I lateron started referring to the principle I explained in it as “dominance politics”.
The 2nd is the post I composed the day after the 2016 governmental election about optimism as an ethic, a posture towards life rather than a set of forecasts about the future. It was really a post with a series of bullet-pointed observations. But that one bullet point — about optimism — resonated with individuals. A lot of you composed in about it. And in current years