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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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Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue…
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn…
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable,…
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How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts…
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded…
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And once we have given our community a good start,' I pointed out, ' the process will be cumulative. By maintaining a…
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Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,…
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As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Then you will be better able to help others -those who…
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Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really…
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And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison,…
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So little have thee first Christians (who despoiled the Jews of their Bible) understood the first four chapters of Genesis in their…
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