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- Nov 07, 2020
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
- Nov 07, 2020
In antihistory, time is an illusion.
- College Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Disruptive innovation is competitive strategy for an age seized by terror.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.
- First World
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
- Nation
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- Nov 07, 2020
No nation has a single history, no people a single song.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.
- Big Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with the factory, so with the office: in an assembly line, the smaller the piece of work assigned to any single individual, the less skill it requires, and the less likely the possibility that doing it well will lead to doing something more interesting and better paid.
- Periods
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- Nov 07, 2020
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
- Cords
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- Nov 07, 2020
Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was obsessed with George Orwell for years. I remember going to the town library and having to put in interlibrary loan requests to get the compilation of his BBC radio pieces. I had to get everything he ever wrote.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is only written from what remains.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Karen Ann Quinlan case is where the right to life and the right to die got bound together, and I don't think they've ever gotten untangled.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
- Lived
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.
- Fox
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Doctor Who' began as family television: a show that kids and their parents and grandparents can all watch, maybe even together, on the sofa.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020
History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
- Government Programs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her children doing their homework at the kitchen table.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.
- Possible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
- Among
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans, among the marryingest people in the world, are also the divorcingest.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020