A Novel Makes It Possible

If You Go On Tv And Say There's No Other Country In The World Where You Can Be Born Poor And Become Rich, You Get A Huge Megaphone. If You Tell The Truth, Which Is That Most Of The Studies Show Actually The United States Is Worse Than Anybody Except Britain In Upward Mobility, There Is No Audience For You.

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.

My Mother Cared More About How You Reasoned Than About The Conclusions You Reached.

The Habit Of Going To Your Congressman's Town Hall And Asking Questions, That's Powerful In A Way That Shouting Slogans Or Getting Arrested Is Not, That Is Completely Counterproductive.

I Don't Think That Disasters Have To Be Spectacular. They Can Be A Slow Corrosion.