Yes, climate change is an existential threat, but there’s also kind of this existential issue of why is it that as our society is progressing… things seem to be regressing and getting worse for a large number of people? Why is that happening? How do we fix that? Saikat Chakrabarti Read Quote
I’m not a ‘long writer’ and have never wanted to write a novel or even a novella. Poetry, like flash fiction, provides a readily accessible canvas to play with. Whether to express an emotion or share a vignette, these forms are often interchangeable. Marge Simon Read Quote
If a guy works, and he has children, it’s good, and he doesn’t feel the same guilt about not being there for the children as a woman would. With a woman, there’s that pull: ‘Oh, I should be home,’ when she’s at work, and ‘Oh, I should be at work,’ when she’s at home. Melanie Mayron Read Quote
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property. John Moody Read Quote
The O.M.B. director puts together the budget. It handles every executive order. It is the clearing house for every single federal regulation. It has input into all the management of all of the federal agencies… It is involved with everything. And I thought, ‘That’s where I want to be.’ Mick Mulvaney Read Quote
The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society. Os Guinness Read Quote
