People Who Want To Wage Cultural Wars

We're Not Free Because Other People Are Nice, Maybe Other People Aren't Nice That Day. We're Free Because We Expect The Institutions Of Government To Work Impersonally. That We Expect People In Government To Understand They Don't Work For The President Or The Prime Minister, They Work For The Government. And The Government Is Always There.

The System We Have Is One That Protects My Rights Under A President I Don`t Approve. That Tomorrow We`ll Do The Same For You. And What People Have In Common Is Their Commitment To Those Shared Rules. And If You Have Someone Who Was A Challenger To The Shared Rules, That`s Unacceptable. And We`ve Never Seen That Before. Not In A Long, Long Time But We See It Now.

A Novel Makes It Possible To Understand Not Just Events, But The People Who Control The Events; Not Only Their Choices, But Also Their Motives.

To Balance China, The Democracies Will Need New Friends - And India With Its Fast-growing Economy, Youthful Population, And Democratic Politics Seems The Obvious Candidate.

But The Thought Leaders On Talk Radio And Fox Do More Than Shape Opinion. Backed By Their Own Wing Of The Book-publishing Industry And Supported By Think Tanks That Increasingly Function As Public-relations Agencies, Conservatives Have Built A Whole Alternative Knowledge System, With Its Own Facts, Its Own History, Its Own Laws Of Economics.