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What Loathing Does to the Soul

What Loathing Does to the Soul
An engraving of a scene from chapter IX of the novel “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886), showing Dr. Jekyll transforming into the monster Mr. Hyde in Dr. Lanyon’s office. Kean Collection/Getty Images
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I got a call from a friend the other day, a prominent literary critic and essayist, who said she was at her wits’ end. All she hears from her circle of friends in her very blue state is unrelenting denunciations of the U.S. president and his supporters, which is more than half the country.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]