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...flip side is to denigrate what we have, a variation on Groucho Marx's refusal to belong to any club with such low standards that it would have him for a member. Abraham Lincoln in 1860 entered polite America's imagination cartooned as an ungainly ape, an uncouth backwoods savage. In the 1932 election campaign, even some liberals appraised Franklin Roosevelt as a feckless mama's boy from the silver-spoon Hudson River gentry, a man without character or principles. "An amiable Boy Scout," wrote Walter Lippman...
...militant spirit of the '60s than the compromising spirit of the '90s. But this leadership will probably have to come from the streets and the masses rather than the weaklings in Washington. And new liberal leadership, while recognizing America's class problems, cannot return to the tired ideas of Marx...
...rhetoric in front of the jury, like Johnnie Cochran's urging them to "send a message" about racist misconduct. This sort of jury nullification, wrote syndicated columnist George Will, in which the panel is motivated by something other than the particulars of the case, amounts to "approximately what Groucho Marx said in the movie Duck Soup: 'Who are you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?'" Legal scholar Kamisar notes that juries now and then will use latitude to ignore law and free a defendant on principle, "but as a general proposition, you can't tell them when they...
What do thinkers as different as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and Madonna have in common? The intuitive answer: absolutely nothing...
...famous essay "The End of History," Francis Fukuyama pointed out that the followers of Karl Marx and the disciples of Adam Smith may actually share something in common, in spite of their very different beliefs. Both groups (along with the Material Girl herself) harbor a deep belief in the importance of material things in our lives. Both groups believe that societal progress can be measured in terms of how many material goods the citizens enjoy...