Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense – whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life. Adam Cohen Read Quote
To a generation beaten down by skyrocketing unemployment, plunging retirement savings, and mounting home foreclosures, ‘Mad Men’ offers the schadenfreude-filled message that their predecessors were equally unhappy – and that the bleakness meter in American life has always been set on high. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, ‘Mad Men’ is stunning to look at – a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty. Adam Cohen Read Quote
The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market. Adam Cohen Read Quote
A publicly run health care program could compete with private insurance companies, which have a record of overcharging and underperforming. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like ‘the right to bear arms.’ Adam Cohen Read Quote
The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. Adam Cohen Read Quote