The Wardrobe Door

The Wardrobe Door

The Type of Cultural Strength We Need—and the Type We Don’t

What separates strength from stubbornness?

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Aaron Earls
Jun 11, 2025
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Have you ever tried to debate a 5-year-old? It’s next to impossible to win an argument with an utterly convinced kindergartner. I feel like that’s what Dante had in mind in the Inferno as he wrote the words inscribed on the gates of hell: “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.”

There’s no appeal to reason or rationali…

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