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Percentage of Members of U.S. Congress Who Have Served in the Military

We must pay our doctors and public servants and teachers more. These are noble callings. But those who pursue them should not be asked to accept their nobility as payment.

We do not intend to fetishize a nonmaterial existence, casting consumption and objects of desire as the enemy to purity and enlightenment.

“a more realistic social faith,” one that accounted for the variation across human cultures and cultural practices. But she went further as well, describing “the co-existing and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created for itself from the raw materials of existence.”

Their métier might not be nineteenth-century sculpture or Italian frescoes, but they found a space in the Valley that permitted them to exercise what is essentially an artistic form of judgment, and to create in a world where normative claims about good and bad, and narrative arcs of triumph and defeat, were still permitted to exist. The outperform

But we decline to confront the consequence of this approach, which is that we essentially incentivize candidates for public service to become wealthy before entering office, or to monetize their position after their departure. The extent of self-promotion and theater in the U.S. Congress is astounding, with representatives in the lower chamber vyin

An emotional and often physical proximity to the mess of imperfections and apparent contradictions of the systems and processes that one is charged with shaping is the source of progress, not its impediment.

The preconditions for a durable peace often come only from a credible threat of war.

said, “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents finally die.” The miracle of the West is its unrelenting faith in science. That faith, however, has perhaps crowded out something equally important, the encouragement of intellectual courage, which sometimes req