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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…
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Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…
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Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say…
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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
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Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that…
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Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism…
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Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for…
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These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting…
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What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell…
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During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period…
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In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for…
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There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from…
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David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't…
— Bruce Sterling
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They [anarchists] spring from a single seed, no matter the flowering of their ideas. The seed is liberty. And that is all…
— Karl Hess
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On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S.…
— Michael Lind
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We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think…
— Robert Reich
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People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to…
— Thomas Frank
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The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man…
— Paul Valery
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
— Aldous Huxley
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Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman…
— Daniel Dennett
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.vvvvvvvvvv
— Aldous Huxley
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I am a determinist...The real issue, so far as the will is concerned, is not whether we can do what we choose…
— Brand Blanshard
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