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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

John Podhoretz

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John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
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What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
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All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.
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The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
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In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.
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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
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Every great political campaign rewrites the rules devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.
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Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
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America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
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Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.
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The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.
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I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
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Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.
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That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.
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What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
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You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
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As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.
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Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.
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By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.
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