“I think in a world where it’s not a choice between the perfect and the awful, but a choice between the flawed and the terrible… if you’ve got a choice between nationalism and multiculturalism, of course you go with nationalism.“
“Because at the end of the day, you’re stuck with yourself, and long after the album kind of fades away from people’s spotlight, you still want to be able to be true to yourself and to your audience. They’re the ones that are gonna stick with you through thick and thin.”
For a long time, economists seemed to agree with the implicit assumption of your question that we should minimize the ethical judgements we make. I’m not sure that’s a universal position anymore.
“The end of the Cold War could not have happened as it did without the resurgence, the renewal, the revitalization of the United States. And I argue that all three of those figures – Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Buckley – were indispensable to that.”
They own their data because they own their relationship. And hence then they can own their own power.
Victims realized it was never going to heal them.
“I’m suggesting that the government do one of the very few things it can do that will immediately improve lives on a day-to-day basis, which is to send every American adult a thousand dollars a month to do what they want with.”
“It’s given me, certainly, a really deep profound appreciation for the fact that in the United States, you have this much broader and richer tapestry of these institutions and groups of people, civic organizations and just human beings who have a sense of that broader commitment. Without it, what you realize is that you can have everything written down perfectly, and it doesn’t matter.”
