American - Journalist | November 21, 1973 -
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
Bret Stephens
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If the Republican party essentially becomes the white party, it is going to be the death of it, not only for demographic reasons but for reasons of principle. The party of Lincoln is a party of opportunity for everyone. It's a party about the right to rise, and Mr. Trump unfortunately doesn't represent that view.
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Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.
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Many of you have been reared on the cliche that the purpose of education isn't to stuff your head with facts but to teach you how to think. Wrong.
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In every generation, there's a strong tendency for everyone to think like everyone else.
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The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.
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The more Mr. Trump traduces the old established lines of decency, the more he affirms his supporters' most shameless ideological instincts.
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What too many of Mr. Trump's supporters want is an American strongman, a president who will make the proverbial trains run on time.
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A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration - would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.
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The best scientific evidence suggests temperatures are rising, and the best scientific evidence suggests man-made anthropogenic carbon emissions have some substantial thing to do with that. However, does that mean the trend will continue forever? We don't know.
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For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.
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Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose of penance. What's remarkable is the extent to which penance sells among a mostly secular audience. What is there to be penitent about?
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