Michael Kinsley Quotes
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a hard science. It's not just putting on sandals and trekking out to take notes on some tribe.
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A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.
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There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
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What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
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The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
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I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.
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One answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
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In any event, the proper question isn't what a journalist thinks is relevant but what his or her audience thinks is relevant. Denying people information they would find useful because you think they shouldn't find it useful is censorship, not journalism.