Sublime

like to toy with human thought like boys toy with beetles.

He’d be nothing. He wouldn’t even be 571. The real authorities could turn him into anything at all.

malaprop.

“The people around the Clinton Global Initiative or the liberal globalist establishment have told themselves a story about how they’re really working for the world,” Rodrik said. “But they are not really a part of a political process. A political process requires that you’re competing with and you’re testing ideas against other citizens. Citizens

In our era that harm is the concentration of money and power among a small few, who reap from that concentration a near monopoly on the benefits of change. And do-gooding pursued by elites tends not only to leave this concentration untouched, but actually to shore it up.

together. This is why Gar Alperovitz’s writing speaks to me—what’s between capitalism and socialism?

belligerent,

Guha, who first visited the United States in the 1980s, has reflected on his experiences with the chauvinistic attitudes of deep ecologists like Roderick Nash, author of Wilderness and the American Mind. His response to Nash, who hoped that “the less developed nations may eventually evolve economically and intellectually to the point where nature

That’s the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next. Creating the soil. Cycling water. Trading in nutrients. Making weather. Building atmosphere. Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count.