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Disrupt, and you will be saved.
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
Why do beautiful women love ugly men?
History is only written from what remains.
In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.
In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world.
Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
The world may not be getting better and better, but our devices are getting newer and newer.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.
Reviewing a book written by someone you're living with and sleeping with is, needless to say, wrong.
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.
My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.
When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
When I was a kid, my father would go to our school in the summer to sweep, mop, and wax the floors, room by room, hall by hall, week after week.
'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.
The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.