Trump's war on pragmatism - The Washington Post - 0 views
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We Americans have always fancied ourselves practical, can-do people who put old feuds aside when faced with a big collective problem.
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it’s no accident that one of the United States’ great contributions to philosophy is William James’s theory of pragmatism. Our bias is toward ideas that work and innovation by way of trial and error.
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This tradition acknowledges that we often have multiple goals. In the coronavirus crisis, this means beating the pandemic and getting the economy humming again.
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