Sublime

experience, rather than honors, mattered most to him.

acquiescing in his ruin.”

bloviate

extol

Baldwin

Make no mistake about it: by the late Clinton-Blair years, both the Right and the mainstream Left had accepted the basic premise adapted from systems theory that the economy was a natural system whose stability depended on the government’s getting out of the way and allowing self-interested people to work toward a dynamic equilibrium. Gone were the

History had taught republicans to distrust luminaries.

jeremiad