In general: why has the movement for social justice unfolded in such a way that its most passionate members have forbidden complexity, nuance, internal criticism, and conditional support? [...] Why do people insist we all be loyal soldiers at precisely the time we need robust internal debate the mos…
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Americans with good jobs live in a socialist welfare state more generous, cushioned and expensive to the public than any in Europe.
Stay out of my guns and you can stay out of my body as well.
This is all meaningless... sometimes it’s like, 'oh my God, the news', and then I pick up my book and suddenly I’m reading about ten thousand years ago again, and, wow, that gives you a perspective.
It was an awards show. And they won! Why are we even talking about this?
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives.
This is the crux of the problem. From doctors to hospitals to labs to device manufacturers to anybody else we want to blame, they don’t overprice things and sell us things we don’t need because they are greedy, evil people. They do it because we tell them to, in the clearest language possible: money…
It is no surprise to me that online debate has become the international sport of cis white men.
There exists a space between the oft chanted chorus ‘silence is violence!’ and the realization that when we advocate for other people we usually have no idea what we’re talking about.
Our United States of America Has quickly become a global empire Come on, see it now for what it really is Power hungry, nothing much to give Violent, all in the name of freedom
Life is much more chill and boring than media makes it seem.
Although women as a group have made substantial gains in wages, educational attainment, and prestige over the past three decades, the economists Justin Wolfers and Betsey Stevenson have shown that women are less happy today than their predecessors were in 1972, both in absolute terms and relative to…
America is indeed a place where all things are possible: that is its greatest promise and, perhaps, its gravest peril.
For us to have had this opportunity and to be able to make this much change, as much as we wish that we could have gotten everything done, it’s remarkable.
Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society. Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were ten, twenty, thirty years ago — no matter what some will say [...] but we are still not where we need to be.
Stark inequality is corrosive to our democracy.
Our democracy will not work without the sense that everyone has an economic opportunity.
Democracy does not require uniformity. Our founders argued, quarreled, eventually they compromised. And they expected us to do the same. But they knew that democracy does require a basic sense of solidarity. The idea that for all our outward differences, we are all in this together. We all rise and…
By almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place than when we started.
The long sweep of America has been defined by forward motion.