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A collectivist childhood habit of pooling food becomes adult political power. The practice is beautiful in a neighborhood alley. It becomes costly when it enters the ballot box of individualistic societies.
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The Chocolate and the Puppy


How childhood collectivism becomes adult political power. I grew up knowing the word before I understood the idea. In the Levant, people call it Lammeh. Someone would say “yallah na’mel Lammeh!” and

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