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Diana Schaub on Lincoln's political philosophy and its relevance today. Lincoln's genius was holding moral clarity (slavery is wrong) together with political pragmatism (abolition requires strategy). This combination is rare and learnable.
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Canon
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Schaub: Lincoln's biography teaches something no theory can — how to hold moral conviction and political pragmatism simultaneously. He didn't compromise on the wrongness of slavery; he was strategic about when and how to end it.
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Schaub: Lincoln's courage wasn't the courage of the revolutionary (burning it all down) but the courage of the statesman (holding firm while navigating constraints). This patience-as-courage is harder to learn but more effective.
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