Sublime

state surveillance, social credit systems, law subservient to the state, and centrally planned economic activity—will be embedded into the future of money, diminishing the vibrancy and health of the global economy, individual liberty, and human advancement.

Reagan cared more about the functions of self-government than his most ideological supporters. He knew how to persuade and when to compromise. But after he was gone, and the Soviet Union not long after him, Free America lost the narrative thread. Without Reagan’s smile and the Cold War’s clarity, its vision grew darker and more extreme. Its spirit

The first big step is to repair the safety net so that workers and families are no longer at perpetual risk of falling through and drowning, as millions have in the pandemic. This means essentially extending the New Deal to more Americans in more areas of their lives: universal health care, child care, paid family and sick leave, stronger workplace

The fact that most Americans do not have passports has become a problem for American democracy.