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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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If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist,…
— Nick Clegg
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A family-friendly "eco-populism" can mobilize and unite millions who, at this point, would be turned off by a more extreme set of…
— Van Jones
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Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation…
— Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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Populism is the simple premise that markets need to be restrained by society and by a democratic political system. We are not…
— Molly Ivins
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At the core of what I'm doing is a belief in the audience, a belief that populism doesn't mean dumbing down theater,…
— Diane Paulus
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The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.
— Van Jones
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I would caution against fueling cheap populism. First of all, every German who has spent a vacation in Greece knows that the…
— Wolfgang Schauble
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Populism is dangerous.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
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[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'.... After all, we conservatives are…
— William Kristol
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A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was…
— Thomas Frank
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What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.
— Mark Gevisser
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of…
— Umberto Eco
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