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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function .— F. Scott Fitzgerald, author We are living in a time that tempts us toward simplification. I was thinking that last night as I watched some of the State of the Union address and read accounts and opinions this morning. Politics feels binary. Even the U.S. ice hockey teams and Olympians seem to be pushed into one camp or another.

These are not new values or ideals. As long as there has been strife and hunger and exploitation and cruelty, there have been...