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Women are the carriers of society’s values ... men are deviant in the sense that many of the qualities admired in them are also one’s that society has to regard with disapproval ... Women’s Lib portrays society and morality as a male invention to coerce and punish women ... [yet] women are a virtuous group seeking to impose their moral standards on men.

— Arianna Huffington

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The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

America is a country ready to be taken—in fact, longing to be taken—by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

Don't forget: our media culture failed to serve the public interest by missing (with a few honourable exceptions) the two biggest stories of our time: the run-up to the Iraq war and the financial meltdown. We've had far too many autopsies and not enough biopsies.

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