Quote by Rick Perlstein

“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They didn’t want…

— Jane Mayer

“Imagine the American people united for the first time in a movement for fundamental change. Imagine society’s power taken away from the giant corporations,…

— Howard Zinn

“It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.”

— John Steinbeck

“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards…

— Robert Reich

“common sense conservatives had become an endangered species in the corridors of power, time and again losing primaries to populists who when it came…

— Keith Taylor

“I realized that it was precisely because of America’s glaring imperfections that I should seek to participate in its progress, carve a place in…

— Eboo Patel

“America was exhausted. The libertarians had made freedom unbearable, the evangelicals had made faith unbearable, the social justice movement had made equality unbearable, the…

— Scott Alexander

“Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a short history…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”

— Edward Abbey

“There are people that are to champion the campaign and advocacy against the cycle of ungodliness and injustice in every nation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Americans were known for a zealous and often immoderate attachment to the United States and all it represented.”

— David H. Finnie

“It was only natural that the intellectuals who questioned the necessity of American purpose did not rush from Cambridge and New Haven to inflict…

— David Halberstam