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America's daily political vitriol is an undeniable fact. Against that depressing background, it is good to be able to celebrate an American invention which, for all its faults, tries to spread around the world a combination of unpaid idealism, knowledge and stubborn civility.

— Timothy Garton Ash

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It can be stunningly good on obscure corners of popular culture, and strikingly weak on mainstream matters.

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