The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.
The journalists in America are no longer covering critical stories. Investigative journalism is gone. Foreign-news coverage is gone. The press is owned by five giant corporations.
American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.
We do not have free market capitalism in America; we have crony capitalism. There is a huge difference between free market capitalism that democratizes a country and makes us more efficient and prosperous and corporate crony capitalism.
In a true free market economy, you can’t make yourself rich without enriching your community.
What polluters do is raise the standards of living for themselves, while lowering the quality of living for everybody else, and they do that by escaping the disciplines of the free market.
I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.
One out of every six American women has so much mercury in her womb that her children are at risk for a grim inventory of diseases, including autism, blindness, mental retardation and heart, liver and kidney disease.
He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.
Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now.
We have suicide bombers blowing up buses in Israel and very real anti-Semitism on the march in Europe, but the TV networks located the worldwide danger zone for Jews as the space between Mel Gibson’s ears.
I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.
It is an expensive government program with the power to kill people.
Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, “You make mathematics seem like fun.” I was inspired to reply, “If it isn’t fun, why do it?”
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.
Nothing to impede progress. If you want to see the fate of democracies, look out the windows.
The consequences for human welfare involved in questions about human capital spillovers are simply staggering. Once one starts to think about them, it’s hard to think of anything else.
Once one starts to think about them, it is hard to think about anything else.
The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms.
Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.