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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…
• Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny…
• Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say…
• Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.
• Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that…
• Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism…
• Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for…
• These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting…
• What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell…
• During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period…
• In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for…
• 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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