Sublime

One of the limiting and disciplining factors in prior eras had been the lack of consumer credit.

The cosmopolitan outlook of Smart America overlaps in some areas with the libertarian views of Free America. Each embraces capitalism and the principle of meritocracy: the belief that your talent and effort should determine your reward. In the narrative of Smart America, meritocracy stands alongside democracy as the twin pillars of the American sys

But your love of the land and of the people, and your relationship to the United States, are very different things.

Thomas Friedman’s 2005 book The…

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It was the kind of election we would expect as we begin to enter the transition phase.

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That was true if being Jewish in America meant recoiling from military power, territorialism, nationalism, and a sense of tribe.

exigencies

the condition of the white working class now is not dissimilar to the condition of African Americans in the 1970s.