In fact, for the majority of the population, wages and incomes have stagnated and conditions have gotten worse. So they are asking, "what did I do wrong?" And the answer that the talk show host is giving them is convincing, in it's internal logic. It's saying, "what's wrong is the rich liberals own everything, run everything, they don't care about you; therefore, distrust them" and so on.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.

You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

The dangers of unexamined and unregulated monopoly power, particularly in the state executive, are hardly news. The right reaction is not passive acquiescence.