The Type of Cultural Strength We Need—and the Type We Don’t
What separates strength from stubbornness?

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…



