Euphonious dichotomies are usually phony dichotomies…
Steven Pinker
(Source: Slate)
America as a place where we can disagree without being disagreeable…
John Paul Stevens
(Source: nybooks.com)
Mitt Romney, the Republican party’s likely presidential nominee, recently referred to Russia as America’s “number one geopolitical foe”. That’s absurd…
Ian Bremmer, Nouriel Roubini
(Source: ft.com)
When a hypothesis is deeply accepted it becomes a growth which only a kind of surgery can amputate.
John Steinbeck
Someone has to propose ideas at the boundaries of the plausible, in order to so annoy the experimentalists or observationalists that they’ll be motivated to disprove the idea.
Carl Sagan
Conservatives Remain the Largest Ideological Group in U.S.” @galluppoll
(Source: gallup.com)
A Russian cargo ship laden with arms has reportedly just docked in Syria in order to resupply Assad’s troops…
Michael Rubin
(Source: commentarymagazine.com)
The Strait of Hormuz is a conduit for 17m barrels a day of oil. The US Department of Energy describes the strait as “the world’s most important oil chokepoint”…
Monavar Khalaj
(Source: ft.com)
Dear @Google : When I search my name I’d prefer that your algorithms didn’t identify me in 50+ pictures. Muchas Gracias
Philipp Hildebrand had no option but to resign as chairman of the Swiss National Bank… @theLexColumn
(Source: ft.com)
Romney’s among the 0.001 percent in the U.S with a net worth of at least US$250 million…
David Friedman
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
If we do not demand a full accounting of the wages of war, future failures are all the more likely — and warranted…
John Tirman
(Source: The New York Times)
#Obama installed Richard Cordray as the first chief of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau… He did so even though the Senate was in pro forma session after the new Congress convened this week.
(Source: The Wall Street Journal)
The transition from country in need of food aid to a nation able to stand on its own feet has taken #Poland a little more than two decades…
Jan Cienski
(Source: ft.com)
