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- This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from…
- Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing…
- These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and…
- There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than…
- Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
- People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.
- Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the…
- There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair…
- American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent…
- Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have…
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- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
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- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster