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Representative Ronald Dellums (Democrat, California), House Armed Services Committee chairman: "A very clear and brilliant thinker...
...novel was written in the tidy bungalow in Santa Monica, California. Crichton uses the place as an office; his home, his wife (the fourth) and his child (the first) are a mile and a half away. In his office sits the author, a student, a thinker, possessed of restless intelligence. He is the only person this person has ever interviewed whose answer to a question was "I don't know." That's inspired...
...would be easy, seeing all this, to say that the world is moving toward the Raza Cosmica (Cosmic Race), predicted by the Mexican thinker Jose Vasconcelos in the '20s -- a glorious blend of mongrels and mestizos. It may be more relevant to suppose that more and more of the world may come to resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into...
Libertarian thinker Nathaniel Branden crystallized the privatization sentiment in an essay included in Capitalism: the Unknown Ideal. He responds to the question of whether education should be compulsory and tax-supported as it is today...
Basically a Democrat, Kinsley is enough of an independent thinker that he occasionally argues with himself. Last fall, as an intellectual exercise, he set out to make a case for voting for George Bush. He produced some cogent arguments, then pronounced a one-word verdict on them: "Nawwwwww . . ." Now, bucking journalistic fashion, Kinsley describes himself as still "one of the bigger Clinton enthusiasts around." The President has made mistakes, he says, but "the center of his trouble is that he is seriously addressing problems that the past two Presidents have ignored," notably the deficit (Mike is a confirmed deficit hawk...