Sublime

Bill Moyers recalled Johnson saying that he had delivered the South to Republicans “for your lifetime and mine,” which would turn the whole structure of politics on a fulcrum of color. In their direst visions, after the Goldwater convention followed hard upon the civil rights bill, neither established experts nor shell-shocked Negro Republicans ant

Locke’s political philosophy was, on the whole, adequate and useful until the industrial revolution. Since then, it has been increasingly unable to tackle the important problems. The power of property, as embodied in vast corporations, grew beyond anything imagined by Locke.

The changes of the early seventies marked a long-term Democratic shift in power from the white working class to the college-educated and minorities. It took several decades, but the two parties just about traded places. By the turn of the millennium, the Democrats were becoming the home of affluent professionals, while the Republicans were starting

En 1985, dans un livre intitulé En sortir ou pas, Jacques Delors entonnait l’hymne de la « bataille économique joyeuse et sauvage ». Il y condamnait le système de protection sociale, jugé « rigide et démesuré ». Il exaltait « des réalités aussi souveraines et immuables que des étoiles dans la nuit » : la compétition, l’entreprise et le marché. Il a

If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America’s newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham’s count (as we saw in C

The largest funds—Gates, Ford, Hewlett, Rockefeller, Lilly, Bloomberg, Getty, Wellcome, a roll-call of past and present tycoons—have a scale which pushes them towards conservatism. They tend to be attracted to a narrow problem-solving approach, using data and evidence to address specific issues which are seen as separate from the broader structural

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But it was, as we have seen, especially in social reform that Germany was believed to be leading the way, and to have found the secret of dealing with the economic evil. In the case of Insurance, which was the test case she was applauded for obliging all her workmen to set apart a portion of their wages for any time of sickness; and numerous other

Most unforgivable was that a nation founded on Madisonian principles allowed secret police powers to accrue over forty years, until real and imagined heresies alike could be punished by methods less open to correction than the Salem witch trials. The hidden spectacle was the more grotesque because King and Levison both in fact were the rarest heroe