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How the Left and Right Can Learn to Love Localism: The Constitutional Cure for polarization

THE ANSWER

Polarization is now only going to get worse? The only real answer? Localism. Let Birmingham be Birmingham and Berkeley be Berkeley.

Joel Kotkin
Joel Kotkin
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Joel Kotkin

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