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Death and taxes, sickness and health, strength and weakness, freedom and tyranny

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Anand Giridharadas
Oct 05, 2020
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He is a weak man who has always longed to be a strong man, and he is a weak man’s idea of a strong man, and right before he got sick he made it clearer than ever that he intends to be a strongman. Some, knowing their history and knowing the pretensions of weak men and strongmen and weak men who become strongmen, have warned us about this potential from …

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