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Can Hypocrisy Be Justified?

There is such a thing as being "too good."

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Shadi Hamid
Oct 05, 2023
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First, if you missed it last week, I highly recommend Michael D. Purzycki’s important essay for us on the case for honesty and anti-hypocrisy in U.S. foreign policy. What I love about the piece is that it smartly contradicts my own (qualified) defense of hypocrisy. Michael argues instead that honesty beats insult. Read the whole thing here.

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