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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one’s own moral center and move through
... See moreJames Baldwin • Notes of a Native Son
We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in
... See more“No speech in the English language, perhaps no speech in modern times, had ever been as widely diffused and widely read as Webster’s Second Reply to Hayne,” an historian of the period was to write. That speech “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.” It made the Union, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wo
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
The American Scholar • Solitude and Leadership
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974
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Obama is a product of this elitist system. So are his degree-laden cabinet members. They come out of Harvard, Yale, Wellesley, and Princeton. Their friends and classmates made huge fortunes on Wall Street and in powerful law firms. They go to the same class reunions. They belong to the same clubs. They speak the same easy language of privilege, com
... See moreChris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
harpers.org • In Praise of Idleness
He has the finest collection of Tibetan wood-block prints in America. He has inspired generations of Stanford students