Globalization has enriched the planet beyond belief, leading to ever-increased demands of perfection. And thanks to 24/7 communications, we all instantaneously know when these expectations aren't met.

Even Hollywood millionaires are now clamoring for legal protections for their illegal-alien nannies and gardeners, though such elites would hardly countenance a similar legal laxity that would allow foreign film technicians, screenwriters, and actors to flood southern California to work in their industry for a fourth of their own pay.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.

It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.