What Kieran Healy thinks about America
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3 dated positions, 2008 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Kieran Healy has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe distinction articulated in questions fifty and fifty-one, for example, eludes quite a number of people who should know better.
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Their wordsIt perfectly expressed the principle, the claim, the myth-as you please-that America is an idea. That it does not matter where you are from. That, in fact, America will in this moment explicitly and proudly acknowledge the sheer variety of places you are all from. That built in to the heart of the United States is the republican ideal not just that anyone can become an American, but that this possibility is what makes the country what it is.
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Our readingThe academic culture of posturing regarding time management is a distinctively American phenomenon.
Their wordsIt seems to me that very nearly all of this sort of guff is pure posturing, net of a very small kernel of obvious truth about not whiling away the weeks playing gin rummy or watching movies to the exclusion of all else. It's a distinctively American sort of posturing, too-you can probably trace it back to Ben Franklin or someone.
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