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Inequality undermined the common faith that Americans need to create a successful multi-everything democracy.
George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
To a considerable extent, the machinery was his machinery; he, more than any other individual, had drafted the executive budget system, the departmental consolidation and the hundreds of bills that implemented those constitutional amendments. He, more than any other individual, knew the considerations—constitutional, legal and political—that lay
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Power Broker
Individual rights should not be rolled back but rather made concrete and relational by linking them to obligations towards others.
Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal
ANDREW J. BACEVICH,
Andrew J. Bacevich • American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition
I’ve met Ayn Rand fanatics all over—among Silicon Valley venture capitalists, at the office of the Tampa Bay Tea Party, even on a road paving crew. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who read Atlas Shrugged in high school) brought her pitiless philosophy of egoism to policymaking on Capitol Hill. Libertarianism speaks to the American myth of the
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
David Brooks, “The Moral Bucket List.” Nir Eyal, Hooked. Anything by Kevin Kelly, most recently The Inevitable
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Power and Purpose: Paul Ramsey and Contemporary Christian Political Theology
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