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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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I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be…
— Kelly Clarkson
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But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there…
— Stephen Malkmus
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We create music to express ourselves and when the world relates, that’s a beautiful thing. We’re all trading off each other’s culture,…
— Jay-Z
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To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY,…
— Michael Azerrad
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I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.
— Aziz Ansari
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The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe…
— Ben Gibbard
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I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.
— Bryan Lee O'Malley
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When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz,…
— Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like…
— Thomas Frank
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I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's…
— Conor Oberst
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One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We…
— Rob Sheffield
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When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living…
— Rob Sheffield
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