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Mr. Carlsson introduces us to this insular, secretive world with the unhurried ease of a seasoned guide.

For example, the US passport has dropped out of the top 10 and now occupies the 12th position - a historic low - because of its increasingly insular stance in world politics, the report says.

Growing concerns about physical safety and political marginalization are prompting California’s Jewish community to withdraw from civic engagement and embrace more insular communal structures, particularly among Orthodox populations who face fewer barriers to community cohesion.

The identity trap distorts our political instincts, making us more attuned to an insular, campus-born ideology than to the common sense intuition of the average American.

Unlike Chakrabarti, Wiener has also been a part of San Francisco’s insular community for decades, and has his own base of support — though he is considered a moderate to Chakrabarti’s progressiveness.