The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political,… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
