Sublime

In recent years a new anti-monopoly movement has emerged, partly inspired by the Progressives, with new ideas for the old desire to make all citizens capable of participating in our political and economic life. Its most famous advocate is Senator Elizabeth Warren, who often echoes Brandeis, and who told the story of Frances Perkins one night in a

Years later Milton Friedman would recount a story about the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, held in 1947. The group was meant to bring together what Europeans would call liberal intellectuals and what Americans would describe as libertarians. As Friedman recalled, “We were discussing the distribution of income, and whether you should

Privy Councillor Frau Strodtmann, widow of the great surgeon, sat in the lobby day and night like a sentry, armed with her lorgnette. Her wheelchair (the old woman was paralyzed) was the hotel’s undisputed social news desk and, most important, the final court of appeal as to what was proper and what wasn’t—an aggressive, fanatical intelligence

Diese Entfremdung hat sich mittlerweile so vertieft, dass die Einwanderung zu einem der Schlüsselthemen geworden ist, welches die Wählerschaft zu populistischen und rechten Parteien treibt,44 die ihrerseits eine sogar noch allgemeinere Entfremdung von den demokratischen Institutionen vorantreiben und kultivieren.

After the McGovern convention in 1972, the Democratic Party became the home of educated professionals, racial minorities, and the shrinking unionized working class. The more the party identified with the winners of the new economy, the easier it became for the Republican Party to pull away white workers by appealing to cultural values.

Overall, America’s blue zone is wealthier, healthier, more educated, more professional, more mobile, more economically unequal, and more ethnically diverse. America’s red zone is more churchgoing, more neighborly, more charitable, more family oriented, more rooted, more violent, less bureaucratic, and less taxed. Surveys indicate that Americans

She’s introduced and addressed as Christiane von Boolen and has had no trouble getting used to the name, just as she’s gotten used to the room with the soft colors and polished furniture, the luxury and comfort of the hotel, the unquestioning matter-of-fact attitude toward money, and all the intoxication of desire, felt in so many ways. If someone

Joseph Roths Protagonist Graf Morstin macht die Erfahrung der Heimatlosigkeit, weil er von einer heterogenen Gesellschaft in eine homogene wechselt. Aber auch das Gegenteil kann passieren, wenn der Übergang von einer homogenen zu einer heterogenen Welt Unbehagen bereitet.