Two ways of being an intellectual

I was watching that Ralph Nader clip with Kenyatta yesterday, and telling her, I don't understand why people find it hard to say, "You know what I fucked up." I don't get the obsession--especially keen among public figures--with digging the ditch even deeper. And then this morning I saw Glenn Loury on bloggingheads doing the right thing.


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