Readers who enjoyed this book might also enjoy David van Raybrouck's "Against Elections." And even though I enjoyed this book more, van Raybrouck offers solutions while Harsanyi does nothing but complain.
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Readers who enjoyed this book might also enjoy David van Raybrouck's "Against Elections." And even though I enjoyed this book more, van Raybrouck offers solutions while Harsanyi does nothing but complain.
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Freedom vs License (continued)
Freedom vs License (part 1 of 2)
(Continued)...is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think that he means something quite different.
-- George Orwell, "Politics And The English Language: An Essay" (1947)
(Continued)...disappearance of their children, devoured by dictatorship.
"The Cruelty Is The Point" by Adam Serwer
"The Cruelty Is The Point" by Adam Serwer
Individuals join crowds because of a vague understanding of the original idea. Crowds accept the superficiality of their ideas because it is a prerequisite to conforming, which, quite often, is their real goal.
--Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
(Continued)...protects the free exercise of religion, we shouldn't be surprised by some of the bitter debates that Washington faces.
(Continued)...had declared independence from--6 percent thought we had revolted from various other nations, among them France, China, Japan, Mexico, or Spain.
(Continued)...true.
This has always been one of my all-time favorite quotations.
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can ever help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population--the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.
--Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People
(Continued)...honor and lives on under the strain of intolerable guilt.
(Continued)...you," the letter read. "You better take it before your filthy, abnormal, fraudulent self is bared to the nation."
Brilliant! Two years after 9/11, a commission is formed to build a memorial. All is well until the commission discovers that the winning design was submitted by a Muslim.
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"Nothing in life gets dropped without someone else having to pick it up."
When the feds have brought domestic terrorism cases, they've often fallen apart at trial. Not only is the legal landscape a challenge, but judges and juries are just a lot more sympathetic to someone they can imagine as a family member or neighbor than, say, to an ISIL sympathizer.
You have to love the fact that a Trump supporter lives in a town called Liberal.😅