Sublime

the number of lawyers representing Carter and the Dallas school district in the case, eight, was more than the number of lawyers who had represented the school district in various stages of a federal desegregation suit filed against it.

We live in a capitalist society, by choice or not, and money is the operating system of that society.

In a world deluged by irrelevant information, clarity is power.

Choice architects (such as Carolyn the cafeteria director) have many opportunities to choose defaults, and they can do so in ways that are self-serving or welfare enhancing.

Ce chapitre s’intéresse à un épisode particulier et peu connu, celui du rôle joué par les intellectuels néolibéraux pour faire échouer l’Organisation internationale du commerce, l’institution qui devait compléter le système de Bretton Woods, ainsi que dans la rédaction des premiers projets, après la guerre, d’une loi internationale sur les investis

Lyndon Johnson’s contention, the judge said, was that, whether or not Coke Stevenson had been wronged, the law was powerless to right that wrong. And with that contention, the judge said, he did not agree. “A sound principle of justice,” he said, is “that there must never arise a wrong for which there is not a tribunal wherein there is a remedy. Th