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June 9, 2003
Entry: "Patriot Act, Strauss, Clinton"

The news on the way to work was unbelievably depressing this morning... featuring defenders of the Patriot Act. And so I start my day off nice and grumpy. :)

Jenny Strauss Clay speaks well of her father and defends him against the associations people are making between him and neoconservatism/the Bush Admin. A&L Daily cites two other articles along those same lines. All three pieces have great Strauss quotes, including:

"there exists a very dangerous tendency to identify the good man with the good sport, the cooperative fellow, the 'regular guy,' i.e., an overemphasis on a certain part of a social virtue and a corresponding neglect of those virtues which mature, if they do not flourish, in privacy, not to say in solitude: by educating people to cooperate with each other in a friendly spirit one does not yet educate nonconformists, people who are prepared to stand alone, to fight alone.... Democracy has not yet found a defense against the creeping conformism and the ever-increasing invasion of privacy which it fosters."