"What's a nice guy like you doing in a party like that? … The Democratic party you have fought and bled for is gone." Source: If Not Us, Who?...
Party Change and Political Alienation
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Social Change
The Gamble of Mass Democracy
"The untested assumption required us to suppose that such an electorate, or at least a majority of its members, would be capable of exercising the...
Stoic Response to History
"to resist the inevitable as stoutly as one can … it may not be inevitable after all—my notion of the future may be mistaken. In the second place,...
Renewal of National Will
"The masters of the Kremlin are not ten feet tall, and there is no objective reason why they must prevail. America's resources are as vast as...
Limits of Social Conservatism
"Social conservatism, like economic conservatism, can at times become an offensive caricature of its best self. Cultural pride can freeze into...
Building a New Coalition
"Of course, nothing worth while is ever achieved without sacrifice, and the formation of the coalition I have described will entail losses as well...
Refusing Soviet Travel
"It is a waste of time to squander a lot of heavy logic on situations that are simply not designed to respond to purely logical treatment." Source:...
Generational Mandate
"In the great systole and diastole of events, we are about to witness … a profound surge forward and upward, deriving its impetus from ancient and...
Weaknesses of Communism
"because it is based on a fundamentally inadequate and mistaken concept of man's nature, I believe it is doomed to final failure—for the same reason...
The Kennedys
Politics tends to run in families. Once the patriarch has established himself as a political power, his friends will often form themselves into a...
America’s First Black President?
Almost without realizing it, America appears to be on the verge of electing its first black president. Political observers are in general agreement...
Here Comes Same-Sex Marriage
On Monday, June 16, San Francisco began implementing the ruling of the California Supreme Court authorizing same-sex marriages in the state....