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The oldest conflict in American politics is the one between individualism and centralism. Reagan changed the terms by inverting them: the descendants of Jefferson’s yeoman farmers, with their desire for independence, became sturdy car-company executives and investment bankers yearning to breathe free of big government. The heirs of Hamilton’s arist
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Our tagline at maslansky + partners is “It’s not what you say, it’s what they hear.”®
Lee Hartley Carter • Persuasion: Convincing Others When Facts Don't Seem to Matter
Liberals cannot quite bring themselves to support state regulation of the soul. (Indeed, by “family values,” they mean not sexual morality but subsidized child care and a living wage.) So they have come up with their own alternative: not care for the soul but care for the body. Health is their religion, the body their temple.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Words That Work, written by Republican political strategist Frank Luntz.
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Social scientists have to decide, every time they do research, what to call the things they study. If they choose the terms decided on by the interested and powerful parties already involved in the situations they are studying, they accept all the presuppositions built into that language.
Stuart A. Kirk • Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs: 0
Words that work, whether fiction or reality, not only explain but also motivate. They cause you to think as well as act. They trigger emotion as well as understanding.