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Clinton was hammered on other aspects of Libya, but it was the incoherence of the policy that hurt her the most. Every time she praised her foreign policy experience, Libya came up.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
ANDREW J. BACEVICH,
Andrew J. Bacevich • American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).
Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
the “Propaganda Model” actually has a fair amount of elite advocacy. In fact, there’s a very significant tradition among elite democratic thinkers in the West which claims that the media and the intellectual class in general ought to carry out a propaganda function—they’re supposed to marginalize the general population by controlling what’s called
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For Lehman’s treatment of Moses after the campaign was the definitive word on the Governor’s character.
Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker
In his 1922 opus, Public Opinion, Lippmann poses a straightforward question: Can citizens achieve a basic knowledge of public affairs and then make reasonable choices about what to do? If the answer is no, then the entire democratic project is at best a folly.