“The West’s median income, meanwhile, has barely shifted in the last half-century.” — Edward Luce Median Copy Share Image
“Today, the US median income is still below where it was at the beginning of this century.” — Edward Luce Median Copy Share Image
“With chisels and pickaxes we made our tiny contributions to this orgy of historic vandalism.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history. FRIEDRICH HEGEL” — Edward Luce Hegel Copy Share Image
“Bismarck once said, ‘Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.” — Edward Luce Committing suicide Copy Share Image
“All of America’s new jobs have been generated by independent work, which has risen by 7.8 per cent a year.65” — Edward Luce New job Copy Share Image
“Almost half of Americans would be unable to pay a $400 medical emergency bill without going into debt.67” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Ironically, some of the lowest-paid jobs – in barbershops and nail salons – will be among the safest.” — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“He advised a new ‘responsible nationalism’, which would ‘begin from the idea that the basic responsibility of government is to maximize the… — Edward Luce Nationalism Copy Share Image
“In its study of the future of work, the laissez-faire Baker Institute admitted it had been ‘unable to find any solutions based… — Edward Luce Education Copy Share Image
“There is a thin line between convincing people of the merits of a case and suggesting they are moral outcasts if they… — Edward Luce Thin line Copy Share Image
“In San Francisco, an ideas factory for America’s most liberal social policies, more than six in ten homes are now worth more… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Writing in the 1950s, Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist, said, ‘economic growth has become the secular religion of advancing industrial societies’.” — Edward Luce Economic growth Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world,… — Edward Luce Around the world Copy Share Image
“every single one of America’s 493 wealthiest counties, almost all of them urban, voted for Hillary Clinton.43 The remaining 2623 counties, most… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“The advantages of being raised on the right side of the tracks are too implicit to be enumerated. It is the few… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“Democracy’s brand was also damaged by America’s reaction to the Al Qaeda attacks in 2001. George W. Bush’s response to 9/11 dealt… — Edward Luce Around the world Copy Share Image
“Cowen detects conformism even in the liveliest Silicon Valley companies. Most of its denizens wear some variation on the casual hipster uniform… — Edward Luce Conformism Copy Share Image
“clustered behind national barriers, what was good for General Motors was good for America. The annual gross domestic product figure meant as… — Edward Luce Bottom line Copy Share Image
“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.” — Edward Luce Parenting Copy Share Image
“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.” — Edward Luce Children Copy Share Image
“Summers complained of ‘the development of stateless elites whose allegiance is to global economic success and their own prosperity rather than the… — Edward Luce Elites Copy Share Image
“It is not just that people are staying physically put. They are also likelier to stay trapped in the same income group.… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“the murder rate has fallen by 16.7 per cent in the US cities since the turn of the century, while rising by… — Edward Luce Mirror image Copy Share Image
“History does not end. It is a timeless repetition of human folly and correction. It follows that there is no single model… — Edward Luce History Copy Share Image
“They yearn for the security of a lost age. Just as America believed it had entered a post-racial era, Britain persuaded itself… — Edward Luce Classless society Copy Share Image
“From barely a statistical rounding error in 1978, with less than 1 per cent of global trade, China rose to become in… — Edward Luce China Copy Share Image
“It would also require a conscious effort to look at the world from unfamiliar standpoints and admit that the West has no… — Edward Luce Conscious effort Copy Share Image
