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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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You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.
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This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
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The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.
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Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.
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For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
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I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.
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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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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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The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
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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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I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
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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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The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
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For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
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Let us now praise Barack Obama.
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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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What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
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Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.
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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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