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Nancy MacLean Responds to Her Critics - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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    "In their writings, Buchanan and other libertarian thinkers lay out a vision for a certain kind of society. It's a society where capitalism has free rein and the rights of the wealthy few are protected, while the many are prevented from exercising countervailing power. It's a society where government is so shrunken as to be unrecognizable. In the country they envision, most protections that benefit average Americans have vanished: Social Security has been abolished, worker and public-health protections are gone, and public schools are shuttered in favor of private education. It's a country where national parks and water supplies are sold to the highest bidder. That's not a country most Americans would recognize. And it's not a country most of us, from any political party, would want to inhabit. "
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The Fake Freedom of American Health Care - The New York Times - 0 views

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    "As a United States citizen now, I wish Americans could experience the freedom of knowing that the health care system will always be there for us regardless of our employment status. I wish we were free to assume that our doctors get paid a salary to look after our best interests, not to profit by generating billable tests and procedures. I want the freedom to know that the system will automatically take me and my family in, without my having to battle for care in my moment of weakness and need. That is real freedom."
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The Know-Nothing Tide - The New York Times - 0 views

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    "Power centers are elsewhere - in financial systems, corporations, technology, networks - that long since dispensed with borders. That being the case, loudmouthed, isolationist trumpery may just be a sideshow, an American exercise in après-moi-le-déluge escapism."
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The Creativity Crisis - Newsweek - 0 views

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    one crucial difference between IQ and CQ [creativity quotient] scores. With intelligence, there is a phenomenon called the Flynn effect-each generation, scores go up about 10 points. Enriched environments are making kids smarter. With creativity, a reverse trend has just been identified and is being reported for the first time here: American creativity scores are falling.
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Evolution and the American Myth of the Individual - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    lots of origin stories in these comments
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