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...this world can be counted on to turn out right. What's the meaning of this annual discipline? Perhaps that the conservatism of John Roberts goes much deeper than mere politics. That he favors authority and tradition while distrusting reforms and revolutions because he believes in the ancient notion that it is human nature to screw things up. The image of the Supreme Court as a great righter of wrongs, ingrained among liberals by the stirring cases of the Warren Court--school desegregation; one man, one vote; right to counsel; and so on--has no power over a judge...
...clerk for Rehnquist in 1980, Roberts was assigned to conduct research for an article on the power of a Chief Justice to set the court's tone. He found an essay in which Frankfurter scoffed at the very notion. Every Justice "is his own sovereign," Frankfurter wrote; you can't expect Justices to get along just because a new chief smiles at them. Rehnquist's article concurred...
...give to charity. The poor, who face a much lower tax rate, get a much lower rebate for giving to charity. Although the amount that one can deduct is capped, this translates into the government paying for donations made by the rich. This system makes a mockery of the notion of fairness. If anything, it should be easier for a poorer person to give to charity, not harder. The charitable deduction system also leads to the problem of under-donation to charities that actually serve the poor that Reich and others have identified. Research has shown that wealthy people...
...longer you stay [in politics], the more ossified you become,” he said. Barrios said his personal beliefs were important when he actively opposed a ban on same-sex marriage in Massachusetts. “The gay marriage debate was an excellent example of the notion of having values in politics and when not to compromise,” he said. Barrios pledged to remain committed to public service in his position at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation. He said he will focus on issues such as increasing minorities’ access to health care...
...Despite its apparent advantages over hereditary/religious orders of earlier ages, this notion of “superior intelligences” cannot escape its artificiality. The inequality of intelligences can never be an objectively verifiable fact of human life; the metrics that establish intelligence are necessarily steeped in arbitrariness. Especially when referring to political knowledge, as “leaders” must, how can anyone claim superiority? How can one possibly understand the narratives, struggles, and hopes of the people “better” than they themselves? Indeed, much like the frenzied efforts colonial intellectuals devoted to constructing...