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The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
The supply of government exceeds demand.
A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…

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