“The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.” WorldShouldWarOrderBeliefPolicyThis WorldTrumpRepublicanConcernAgreeInstitutionsStructureUnionsDemocraticDemocratRussiaPostsWar Of The WorldsPensSovietWorld War IiForeign PolicyWorld War ISoviet UnionHostileMarinePutinWorld OrderBipartisanAmerican Foreign Policy Author:David Brooks
“I'd say the modern world has moved yet further away from me, and I don't think whether or not I am incarcerated has had much to say in this context. Living with your family changes you, for the better, and that would be the reason for the accelerated growth in the post-prison period, so to say.” ThinkingWorldReasonWould BeGrowthModernPeriodsMovedPrisonPostsOur FamilyModern World Author:Varg Vikernes
“If I had the money I'd pay people to have them read accurate books or posts about our own religion. It is very important not only for their self-image, but also for the future of Europe - as a biological term.” PeopleIfsImportantBookSelfTermPayEuropePostsAccurate Author:Varg Vikernes
“I didn't ask to become a role model, but it was thrust upon all of us, regardless of whether you acknowledge it. You have to come to a decision as an adult and say, "I've got to live my life." There's nothing wrong with thinking ahead and being aware of how it might affect somebody - everything from a post to where you have dinner to who you're with. But these aren't things you can let consume your life.” ThinkingMightAsksDecisionRolesModelsAdultsDinnerPostsAcknowledgeRole ModelsLiving My LifeThrustThinking Ahead Author:Nick Jonas
“The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.” SaidAmericaPartyRepublicanDemocraticPostsRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyContributors Author:David Duke
“What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.” ThinkingRunningSocialCommunityEmotionLonelinessComputerMessagesEmptyDatingPhonesPostsReliefOur SocietyOnlineIgnoredSocial NetworkAppsInbox Author:Alexander Weinstein
“We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in "Openness" isn't merely romantic, but public/social as well.” WorldWellsCharacterJoySocialGriefOur LivesShareMinutesHonestMediaBabyBirthDemandMassDatingPressureDetailsSocial MediaPostsOpennessOur RelationshipSiteConstructsNetworkingInstagramPersonaAppsOur WeddingNetworking SitesBaby PicturesWedding Pictures Author:Alexander Weinstein
“Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.” IfsWayTwoHoursLinesDoorsReaderBillsWork OutBackgroundsAgentsPostsUnexpectedPublishingGet OverProposal Author:Ann Voskamp
“You have to wait a few days in between selfies. I know people who post multiple in a day, and some of them are my close friends, and I'll be like, "Enough!" There are only so many times in a day that I need to see your beautiful face.” PeopleKnowsNeedsEnoughBeautifulFacesWaitingPostsMultipleClose FriendsYour BeautifulBeautiful Face Author:Ariana Grande
“I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing we had seen in the business section. Everyday people were writing that finally someone was speaking to them in a way that was understandable. I think we were all shocked at how many readers wrote in to say that they too had a Big Mama who taught them about money.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingFirstsBigsPassionFoundTaughtReaderResponseEverydayPostsSectionsShockedMamaColumnsBig Mama Author:Michelle Singletary
“It's really important that we stop body shaming people online and on social media. The rude comments under pictures, comparing women in "who looks better" posts - all that does is force us to judge each other. It only sets us back and women, now more than ever, need to empower each other.” PeopleNeedsLooksDoeImportantBodyForceSocialMediaJudgingSocial MediaPostsCompareEmpoweringOnlineCommentRude Author:Ashley Graham
“On the larger issue of the travel ban, our friend Charles Krauthammer of The Washington Post I think put it pretty well. I'm not sure it's illegal, but it's extremely stupid.” ThinkingWellsIssuesStupidPostsNot SureIllegalBans Author:David Brooks
“Democracy takes work. That's the thing we're really finding out, that, you know, in many ways, you know, the past two decades we've taken for granted all of the extraordinary achievements of the post-war generation. You know, building this global alliance structure that has kept the peace across the North Atlantic since World War II. Building all of these institutions, building all this remarkable technology. And people have privatized. You know, you can now, you don't have to go outdoors much, the whole world comes to you.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayTwoWarWholePastTechnologyDemocracyTakenGenerationsBuildingAchievementFindingsInstitutionsStructureExtraordinaryDecadesWhole WorldGrantedPostsWar Of The WorldsRemarkableWorld War IiWorld War IAlliancesTaken For GrantedPost WarExtraordinary Achievement Author:David Frum
“We wasted a lot of creative energy in that immediate post colonial era, when there was a struggle between, you know, the Cold War between the capitalism and communism. Many writers just wasted their energy and their talent because they want to be ideologically correct and of course all they produced was propaganda.” KnowsWantWarCoursesEnergyStruggleCreativeTalentColdCapitalismCommunismErasPostsPropagandaCold WarCreative EnergyCapitalism And Communism Author:Wole Soyinka
“It doesn't matter who the candidates are. It doesn't matter the campaign. You know that's gonna happen. The Washington Post is gonna do it, the New York Times is gonna do it, the three networks gonna do it, CNN's gonna do it, MSNBC gonna do it, all the newspapers are gonna do it. For the vast majority of them. There are some exceptions. That sameness ends up being its own authority. If everywhere you look in the media tells you the same thing, you don't have to research.” IfsKnowsLooksEndsMatterHappensThreeMediaNew YorkAuthorityResearchMajorityCampaignsNewspapersPostsCandidatesExceptionNew York TimesCnnSameness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you look at the New York Times, it says X; if you look at the Washington Post, it says the same thing. And if you turn on any television newscast it's the same thing you already heard, that's research. And that's one of the ways it's done. Authority ends up being imputed simply because of volume. I mean, all of these different news organizations reporting the exact same thing.” IfsWayLooksMeanDifferentEndsDoneTurnsHeardNew YorkTelevisionAuthorityNewsResearchOrganizationPostsVolumeTurn-onNew York Times Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsWarHomeCareSchoolJobsNationsBrainExampleBuildingResourcesStressDecadesPostsBridgesInjuryDisorderVeteranGood JobRebuildingNation BuildingBack To WorkOur VeteransPost Traumatic Stress DisorderBrain InjuryTraumatic Brain Injury Author:Barack Obama
“I believe Raghuram Rajan's patriotism is no less than any of ours. As much as I know Raghuram Rajan, whatever post he holds, wherever he is, he is someone who will continue to serve the country.” KnowsBelieveCountryI BelievePosts Author:Narendra Modi
“Post-publication I have been surprised at the limited resources publishers have to promote books. I certainly knew that being a new author, I would have to do a lot of self-promoting, but it really has surprised me just how much I have had to do myself to make sure the books get into the hands of young people.” PeopleHas BeensBookSelfHandsYoungResourcesPostsPublishersPromotingPublicationLimited Resources Author:Renee Watson
“Trump will have to take up juggling if he goes ahead and scraps the agreement with Iran and at the same time, seeks to avoid alienating Russia, and quite possibly France and Germany. These European countries are already nervous about what the Trump presidency means with respect to the future of the post-World War II international order that has essentially kept the peace on the continent since 1945. This order is far from perfect, of course, and under pressure from other sources, especially due to the rise of chauvinism and European Trumpism.” IfsWorldMeanWarCountryOrderCoursesPerfectSourceTrumpPressureInternationalDuesRussiaNervousFrancePostsWar Of The WorldsGermanyAgreementIranWorld War IiWorld War IContinentsPresidencyScrapUnder PressureEuropean CountriesJugglingChauvinism Author:Richard A. Falk
“Here's the point - and Jonah Goldberg reminds us of this. He wrote a blog post that was titled "The MacGuffinization of American Politics." Do you know what a MacGuffin is? "'In a movie or book, 'The MacGuffin' is the thing the hero wants,' Ace writes." So in the Maltese Falcon, for example, the hero wants the Maltese Falcon, but there's always somebody trying to stop the hero from getting what he wants.” KnowsWantWritingTryingBookExampleHeroPostsDo You KnowAmerican PoliticsBlogsJonahAcesFalcon Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws [it] open.” IfsWarAnswersRaceLaborRelationSlaverySlaveSouthPostsRace RelationsEmancipationAbolishProclamationPost WarEmancipation ProclamationSlave Labor Author:Eric Foner
“I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.” IfsWantThreeMonthsPostsThree Times Author:Gigi Hadid
“Post 9/11, we've seen such disastrous policies on the border. I live two and a half hours away from the border, and I've seen changes for the communities there. I feel like it's an occupied zone. We're losing our rights, and both sides of the border are terrified. The Mexican population and the U.S. population are united in fear.” FeelsTwoSidesCommunityHoursUnitedHalfRightsPolicyLosingPopulationPostsBordersZoneTerrifiedBoth SidesMexicanHalf Hours Author:Sandra Cisneros
“I teach art at a famous art school, and yet I don't have really the least notion what post-modernism means, but we have people in the letters and science department that understand it quite well and the students go there if they want to understand what this term that is being bandied about is all about, but I've never understood it.” PeopleIfsWantWellsMeanArtSchoolTermTeachStudentsUnderstoodLettersNotionPostsDepartmentModernismArt SchoolPost Modernism Author:Lawrence Jordan
“If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this.” IfsWorldWayShouldMadeStatesWould BeDiesFightingSidesCitiesMankindReadyArmsLoversThousandOvercomingArmyMereEndurePostsBelovedHonourThrowingGovernorsHandfulReady To DieThrowing AwayDishonourAbstaining Book:Symposium Source: Symposium
“There's actually an article in the Washington Post, I don't know whether it's tongue in cheek or not, which said the criterion for being on the list of banned states is that [Donald] Trump doesn't have business interests there.” KnowsSaidStatesInterestTrumpTongueListsPostsArticlesCheeksCriteriaBannedTongue In Cheek Author:Noam Chomsky
“What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.” WorldYearsWellsMeanMadeWarPurposeCoursesEnergyForceAnswersCasesSeaColdCoupleYears AgoStatementsCommandPostsOfficialsSecretaryCold WarFormalInterventionExplainingLanesNatoPipeline Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's a point that Dan Ellsberg has made for years. He said it's kind of like if you and I go into a grocery store to rob it, and I have a gun. The guy may give you the money in the cash register. I'm using the gun even if I don't shoot. Well that's nuclear weapons - essential to post-war deterrence - they cast a shadow over everything.” IfsGivingYearsWellsKindMayMadeSaidWarGuyEssentialsWeaponsGunShadowCastsStoresNuclearPostsCashNuclear WeaponsGroceriesRegisterGrocery StoresPost WarDeterrence Author:Noam Chomsky
“That's our nuclear weapons strategy [going to frighten people], as of the early post-Cold War years. And I think this is a real failure of the intellectual community, including scholarship and the media. It's not like you had headlines all over the place. And it's not secret, the documents are there. And I think that's probably the right picture.” PeopleThinkingYearsWarRealCommunitySecretMediaLike YouColdWeaponsIntellectualStrategyIncludingNuclearPostsNuclear WeaponsDocumentsCold WarScholarshipHeadlines Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Washington Post is quickly trying to become the safe space for Donald Trump deniers, for the Trump-won-the-election deniers. I think the Washington Post is establishing itself as the safe space for anti-Trump delicate snowflakes to go.” ThinkingTryingSpaceTrumpSafeElectionPostsDelicateSnowflakeSafe Space Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think that economics explains Trump. The US is doing relatively well, the economy has significantly recovered since 2008, unemployment rates are low. I would say rather that his appeal to the working class was cultural: "I'll bring back the kinds of jobs your fathers had," and, by implication, the whiter, simpler post-war world when America had no real economic competition.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsKindWarRealJobsAmericaFatherMistakeClassEconomyEconomicTrumpLowsEconomicsCompetitionClintonRatePostsAppealsWealthyWorking ClassUnemploymentImplicationsPoorestPost WarUnemployment RateEconomic Competition Author:Anne Applebaum
“A particular type of film emerged from World War Two, with the Italian neorealist school. It was perfectly right for its time, which was as exceptional as the reality around us. Our major interest focused on that and on how we could relate to it. Later, when the situation normalized and post-war life returned to what it had been in peacetime, it became important to see the intimate, interior consequences of all that had happened.” WorldTwoImportantWarRealitySchoolFilmInterestSituationHappenedParticularTypeMajorsConsequenceFocusedPostsRelateIntimateWar Of The WorldsItalianInteriorsExceptionalWorld War TwoPost War Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to compromise their principles of independence are eliminated, so that the postcolonial regime (and especially its resources) remains accessible. The result has been a disaster for the (post)colonial world.” WorldHas BeensHelpingResultsLeaderPrinciplesHonestResourcesIndependenceRemainsRefuseDisasterCompromiseRadicalPostsActivistRegimesPrincipledSurrogates Author:Nigel Gibson
“Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.” ImportantSometimesHelpingAcceptingCuttingConditionsPositionAmbitionStandardsPostsMasculinePersonal Success Author:Simone de Beauvoir
“The same people the Americans sent over - that we sent over to advise the Russians, we also sent over to advise the Poles about how to build a post-communist economy. Same people, same advice, with radically different results, which leads to suspicion it's not our advice which was the crucial variable. It was the Poles, on one hand, and the Russians on the other. The Poles succeeded; the Russians didn't. Don't blame us.” PeopleDifferentHandsResultsEconomyAdviceBlamePostsCommunistCrucialSuspicionAdviseVariables Author:Daniel Fried
“Post-genocide Rwanda has managed to implement a good universal health insurance scheme that covers a large proportion of the population. This came about because of the severity of the country's problems and the resulting high proportion of women in the parliament and among professional caregivers, which had a positive effect on policy.” CountryProblemEffectsPolicyUniversalPopulationPostsProportionGenocideSchemesParliamentSeverityRwandaCaregivers Author:Mary Robinson
“It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.” ThinkingShouldYearsMindKindMadeCountryStatesLastsNationsDifficultDestinyEasierCreatingIdealsEnglandMade ItPostsThirtyThirty YearsCommonwealthMulticulturalElitistMulticultural Society Author:Irvine Welsh
“We spend so much time, these days, on forms of literature that don't rise to be literature, and I'm speaking about Twitter posts and quick and hot takes on different websites. We sort of zoom from thing to thing like a hummingbird.” DifferentFormLiteratureHotPostsThese DaysWebsiteHummingbirdsZoom Author:Ben H. Winters
“Neither capitalism nor socialism is capable of meeting our unprecedented global challenges. Both came out of early industrial times, and we are now well into the post-industrial age. Both came out of times when the West still oriented much more to the domination side of the social scale, so both these theories did not pay attention to caring for people and nature.” PeopleWellsStillsAgeSocialSidesChallengesPayAttentionTheoryCapableCapitalismMeetingsWestCaringScalesSocialismPostsPay AttentionDominationUnprecedented Author:Riane Eisler
“We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.” AgeJobsMovingPostsProductiveArtificial IntelligenceArtificialReplacedRoboticsAutomationProductive Work Author:Riane Eisler
“I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.” WorldFirstsChildrenWarResultsPartyEarsElectionCommittedCampaignsPostsWar Of The WorldsLabourWorld War IiInstructionWorld War IBeltsDisobediencePolicemenCivil DisobedienceAmazementLabour PartyNobody CaresGeneral Elections Author:Patrick Stewart
“An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.” MistakeModernApproachAspectIdealsPrejudiceErasPostsCorrecting Author:Sean Michael Wilson
“We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot, cheap software, and then this world averages over. There is only one answer to that, and that is to get everyone as close as possible to some form of post-secondary education, it could be vocational, it can be liberal arts, it can be science and technology.” WorldArtFormAnswersTechnologyThis WorldGeniusLaborAverageAccessPostsBossSoftwareEnteringRobotsScience And TechnologyLiberal ArtsCheap LaborSecondary Education Author:Thomas Friedman
“If I were advising President Obama, since he's the one running, I would have made his campaign very simple. I promise that in four years, I will get more Americans, as many as I possibly can, the opportunity and access to some form of post-secondary education. I want more of them to graduate high school with the skill-set of post-secondary education and I want more of them to be able to obtain that post-secondary education. This is the only way we are going to close the income gap.” IfsWayWantYearsMadeRunningAbleSchoolFormOpportunityPresidentSimpleFourPromiseSkillsHigh SchoolAccessCampaignsIncomePostsGapsPresident ObamaFour YearsGraduatesI PromiseSecondary Education Author:Thomas Friedman
“We`re a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the very notion of liberal democracy is being questioned, and that is disturbing.” LittlesBitsDemocracyLittle BitLowsNotionErasPostsVietnamDisturbing1930sWatergateMalaiseLiberal Democracy Author:Daniel Fried
“I think what you see a lot of in American religion, even in areas of American Christianity that don't go all the way with Osteen to the idea that God wants you to have this big house and so on, the nature of American religion right now, the fact that it is so non-denominational and post-denominational, the most successful churches have to be run more like businesses than ever before. I think that just exposes Christians to a constant temptation to think about the ministry more as a business than they sometimes should.” ThinkingWayWantShouldIdeasSometimesFactsBigsRunningChristianHouseChurchChristianitySuccessfulRight NowAreasConstantTemptationPostsMinistryBig Houses Author:Ross Douthat
“The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.” WayHumansIdeasReligiousHuman BeingsFantasyVariousPosts Author:Ross Douthat
“I think the personal and psychological aspects of war remain the same. War is about killing and dying. A man or woman stands at the post and there is a very real possibility of dying in the next five minutes. Whether he dies or not depends partly on him and partly on luck, and yet he must continue to function.” ThinkingMenWarRealDiesNextFiveMinutesDyingPossibilityDependsAspectFunctionLuckKillingPsychologicalPostsFive Minutes Author:George Friedman