Sublime

Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter took on all these issues with a sense of compassion in their respective books. Sowell’s The Intellectuals and Race is a relentless dissection of how leftists try to reconstruct racial realities to further their agenda. McWhorter’s Losing the Race is a scathing—though empathetic—attack on contemporary black anti-inte

The arc of his life helped to create a very particular California sensibility, a state of mind that has gone on to spread throughout the entire world.

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A quixotic intellectual troubadour, he has prosecuted a series of discrete visions united only by a potent sense of curiosity and a provocative optimism.

We felt that in countries around the world, low-income countries, the thing holding people back the most was health—a bout of malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, children dying needless deaths. We thought there was something that philanthropy could do to work on health. If you start with health, then you can go on to get a great education. In the Unit

The narrative of Free America shaped the parameters of acceptable thinking for Smart America. Free trade, deregulation, economic concentration, and balanced budgets became the policy of the Democratic Party. Culturally it was cosmopolitan, embracing multiculturalism at home and welcoming an increasingly globalized world. Its donor class on Wall Str

“Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?”

If there’s one name today that’s synonymous with visionary leadership, it’s Steve Jobs.