Reductive dichotomies and building walls --- Interesting that you should see dichotomies as an instance of narrowing the circle. To divide the entire world into two camps (like or dislike, friend or unfriend, with us or against us) is to expand the circle of us (versus them) considerably and - here is the key problem in my view - to solidify the boundary between them so that it is virtually impassable. Like Trump's wall.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu