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...Final Jeopardy question from the category "Twentieth Century Americans" determined the outcome of the competition...
...Bois wrote in The Souls of Black Folk, "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line," then some of the best responses to this problem will be developed at Harvard. Most of Harvard's black scholars are public intellectuals; instead of hiding in the ivory tower, devising fantastic theories, they are informing some of the most controversial contemporary debates. They bring understanding and reason to some of the most bitter and hysterical contentions which threaten to divide our society...
...this understanding has not led me to nihilism. I see my work as part of a greater movement to reclaim law and politics for the people. We took on despots in the eighteenth century and robber barons in the nineteenth. Now in the twentieth and into the twenty-first, we are called to rebel against another great, illegitimate concentration of power--the corporation...
...came to, I think, a stunning realization," Leyner continued after the crowd quieted. "Only in the late twentieth century have unimportant people become so important...
Still, the same trend that thus complicates the economics of redistributive taxation presumably simplifies the politics of it by increasing the number of resentful voters. Between 1980 and 1989, the share of national income claimed by the most affluent one-twentieth of households rose from 21% to 26%; for the upper one-fifth as a whole it rose from 47% to 52%. Meanwhile, the share fell for the second one-fifth--and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. The potential appeal of a sharply redistributive income tax is unknown, but this simple math suggests it's bigger than...