Italians are using a phrase meaning to retreat not surrender An expression in Italy is being used to mean insulating yourself from the world's unpleasantness.

This piece on NPR today completely misses the larger context of "tending one's own garden"--the philosophical endpoint of Voltaire"s satirical novel, Candide

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