Tom Friedman Says China Is So Awesome

America's Political System Used To Be About The Pursuit Of Happiness. Now More And More Of Us Want To Stop Chasing It And Have It Delivered.

The Premise Of My Book Is That Everyone Is A Bit Ideological To Some Extent. Everyone Comes From A Ideological Perspective.

The Logical Upshot Of Liberalism's Hatred Of Hypocrisy Is That It Is Better For The Liar To Champion Lying, The Glutton To Advocate Gluttony, The Adulterer To Celebrate Adultery, Than For Someone To Preach The Right Thing If He Himself Occasionally Does The Wrong Thing. Better To Let Your Failings Define You And Be Happy About It, Than To Let Your Ideals Define You But Then Fall Short Of Them, For That Opens You Up To The Charge Of Hypocrisy.

Christian Socialism”). This Is A Difficult Concept For Modern Liberals To Grasp Because They Are Used To Thinking Of The Progressives As The People Who Cleaned Up The Food Supply, Pushed Through The Eight Hour Workday, And Ended Child Labor. But Liberals Often Forget That The Progressives Were Imperialists, At Home And Abroad. They Were The Authors Of Prohibition, The Palmer Raids, Eugenics, Loyalty Oaths, And, In Its Modern Incarnation, What Many Call “state Capitalism.

Three Explanations Dominate Speculation About What Obama Is Up To. The First Is That He's Trying To Lay The Groundwork For His Successor, Presumptive Nominee Hillary Clinton. The Second Is That He's Trying To Pad His Legacy. The Third Is That He's Trying To 'troll' Or Bait The Gop Into Debating His Agenda Rather Than Pursuing Its Own. All Are Plausible, And None Necessarily Contradicts The Others.