Squaring Dupont Circle
Tushnet, Eve, The American Conservative
HEAVEN IS NOT a farm.
If you spend too much time on the American Right--in either its demotic or romantic-intellectual forms--you might forget this essential truth. You'll be subjected to paeans to rural community; cities are so soulless! They're cold, artificial, out of touch with beauty (which explains why cities produce so little great art). City folk exemplify capitalist modernity at its most unnatural.
Well, I'm human, not natural. I like strangers, mostly because I am one. I'm also a resident of one of America's least-loved cities: her nation's capital. And my current address is an even harder sell for the conservative mind: the former gay ghetto, Dupont Circle. Here is a neighborhood where …
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Publication information:
Article title: Squaring Dupont Circle.
Contributors: Tushnet, Eve - Author.
Magazine title: The American Conservative.
Volume: 8.
Issue: 12
Publication date: September 2009.
Page number: 23.
© 2009 The American Conservative LLC.
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