Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

The amazing thing about Trump is that he is so completely predictable. Hillary Clinton knows that if she teases him about either his wealth, his taxes, the women who are coming after him or his preposterous claims of being against the Iraq war, he cannot resist.

Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Chinese emissions are a problem not just for its own people but also for the world. It has now overtaken the U.S. as the biggest carbon emitter; most of the coal that is burned anywhere on Earth is burned in China.