“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”
Where war metaphors begin as clarion calls for action against a certain target or for a certain cause, they end by effectively pushing out any talk of targets or causes and instead fixate on the methods of action, which they tend to radically inflate and disfigure.
Read MoreMélenchon had one thing the others did not: the credible claim to be the leader of the left, with by far the largest base of support and the only half-chance of achieving the Presidency. For this fact alone he ought to have been given every reward, however undeservingly.
Read MoreConservatism is seldom adequate to meet the moral exigencies of its time because it is basically a negative proposition: it rejects change above all, and in moments when the status quo becomes unsustainable, it flounders.
Read MoreGlobal heating is supremely intangible for the vast majority of living humans: it will kill people, but probably not anyone you know, and at an unspecified future time you will have trouble grasping.
Read MoreOld and new money may squabble over who gets to be the face of this rarefied social club, but all members agree on the most important thing: that they have much, much more money than everyone else, and plan to keep it that way forever.
Read MoreThe most gutting aspect of this thinly-veiled hit-job is that Warren chose to go on the offensive not by announcing a new policy or emphasizing any substantive difference between Sanders and herself, but rather with a naked appeal to identity politics.
Read MoreYang is proposing a radical idea, not to quicken history but to allow people to keep up with its breakneck pace without being cast into destitution. That is much closer to the best socialist traditions than to the managerial liberalism of Michael Bloomberg.
Read MoreLiverpool and Manchester City have shown that the challenges facing football are also opportunities to be seized.
Read MoreBecause of their jobs, their families, and the extraordinarily poor services provided to them for the exercise of their democratic right—and because, indirectly, of the race and class they were born into—many of these people will not vote.
Read MoreAll writing is really the act of forcing open the aperture of the mind. But cleaving our brains open in this way is dangerous: it kills us if we do it too well.
Read More“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
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