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This article of liberal faith—that conservatism is not just wrong but angry, mean and, well, bad—produces one paradox after another.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
The white working class exists in a world of received, not constructed, morality.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond
Leaders who appear to be following opinion may in fact be creating it.53 Whether or not one considers this leadership or manipulation, it undermines claims to popular control.
James S. Fishkin • Democracy When the People Are Thinking: Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation
Rely on fair standards, especially ones the other side believes in.
G. Richard Shell • Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
“We’ve got to call a spade a spade and a perverted human being a perverted human being,” Helms had told the Senate when he proposed an amendment adding “sexual abstinence only” to a $300 million appropriation bill for AIDS education. (The Senate supported him, 94 to 2.59
Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Perhaps more significant, he’s had a dramatic impact on how the media functions, the kinds of stories it tells, and journalists’ unwillingness to critique the left with the same zeal they attack the right.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
“The rationalist utopia is a power trip,”
Nate Silver • On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
In retrospect we should not be surprised that an industry excluded from basic liability and told it would not be held accountable grew up to be irresponsible and unaccountable.
Steven Brill • The Death of Truth
The audience laughed in Coulter’s face on Bill Maher’s show when she claimed in June 2015 that of all the Republican candidates Trump had the best chance of winning the presidency.