Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
What distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Not by referring to authority, but by referring to my own subjective responses.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
“If you said to a dean that you wanted to fund conservative constitutional law, he would reject the idea out of hand. But if you said you wanted to support Law and Economics, he would be much more open to the idea,” he confided. “Law and Economics is neutral, but it has a philosophical thrust in the direction of free markets and limited government.
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
She had been stricken from her marriage, rendered near penniless by the events, and was now an older and disregarded woman. It’s a harrowingly common feeling, even if the details of her experience and solution are particular. We women age, eyes sweep over us in obvious disregard, our moments of confusion are mocked, our knowledge makes us schoolmar
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
rewrite your research into popular articles.
Katie Rose Guest Pryal • The Freelance Academic: Transform Your Creative Life and Career
As he headed up the Allee toward his parents’ building, under a sun that now seemed wan, he mentally scurried to rationalize what he’d done to the magazine editor—tried to tell himself that she’d gotten only what every apparatchik deserved, that she was being punished for her own stupidity in failing to notice the obvious acrostics, and that, in an
... See moreJonathan Franzen • Purity: A Novel
I believe he was wondering whom he might be for the rest of his life;