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George Packer
George Packer
American Novelist
Born: Aug 13, 1960
American People Politics War World You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country. George Packer
Pressure Country Spending Relentless Rural Rural Areas Small Both Area Prices Consumer Small Towns Towns Period Employment Wage Wages Came Dominate Decades Walmart Middle Stagnation Across Explosive Company Downward Growth Applying
Climate change joined immigration, job creation, food safety, pilot training, veterans' care, campaign finance, transportation security, labor law, mine safety, wildfire management, and scores of executive and judicial appointments on the list of matters that the world's greatest deliberative body is incapable of addressing. George Packer
Finance Food Change Training Management World Immigration Law Safety Pilot Veterans Care Job Matters Creation Addressing Mine Wildfire Job Creation Security Joined Executive Greatest Judicial Climate Climate Change Scores Campaign Campaign Finance Labor List Incapable Body Transportation Appointments
Ambition, of course, is the politician's currency. George Packer
Ambition Politician Course Currency
The base of the party, the middle-aged white working class, has suffered at least as much as any demographic group because of globalization, low-wage immigrant labor, and free trade. Trump sensed the rage that flared from this pain and made it the fuel of his campaign. George Packer
Class Made Free Party White Pain Group Rage Immigrant Free Trade Globalization Because Trade Demographic Least His Trump Campaign Labor Any Sensed Middle-Aged Fuel Much Working Working-Class Base Suffered
Abstract sympathy with the working class as an economic entity is easy, but the feeling can vanish on contact with actual members of the group, who often arrive with disturbing beliefs and powerful resentments - who might not sound or look like people urban progressives want to know. George Packer
Class People Feeling Group Sympathy Progressives Members Easy Vanish Disturbing Entity Economic Contact Abstract Powerful Like Know Look Sound Arrive Often Want Urban Might Working Working-Class Who Beliefs Actual
White male privilege remains alive in America, but the phrase would seem odd, if not infuriating, to a sixty-year-old man working as a Walmart greeter in southern Ohio. George Packer
Man White Alive Would Phrase Seem Remains Odd Male Privilege Southern America Walmart Ohio Infuriating Working
The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes. George Packer
Government Class Pressure Right-Wing Simply Beyond Court Role Middle Middle Class Censure Acknowledging Taxes Cutting Play
Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign. George Packer
Today Politics Ignorance World Country White Conservatism Spirit About Given Raw Contempt Identity Trump Campaign Expertise Republicans Incendiary Sarah Sarah Palin Appeals Whose Palin
WikiLeaks is not a news organization; it is a cell of activists that is releasing information designed to embarrass people in power. George Packer
News People Organization Power Wikileaks Releasing Embarrass Cell Information Activists Designed
Lawyers, judges, doctors, shrinks, accountants, investigators and, not least, journalists could not do the most basic tasks without a veil of secrecy. Why shouldn't the same be true of those professionals who happen to be government officials? George Packer
Government Be True Doctors Secrecy Those Lawyers Could Investigators True Veil Journalists Most Judges Without Least Government Officials Accountants Tasks Same Officials Happen Who Professionals Why Shrinks Basic
It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech startups are solving all the problems of being 20 years old, with cash on hand, because that's who thinks them up. George Packer
Me Problems Old Startups Solving Cash Hottest Because Occurred Years Hand Up Being Them Who Suddenly Tech Thinks
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth. George Packer
Truth Great Tell Must Writer Great Writer Requires Biography
Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents. George Packer
Police Neighbors Borders Give Afghanistan Sanctuary Assistance
Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government. George Packer
Faith Government Democracy Overcome Our Obama Restore Catalyst Partisanship Himself Offers Decades American Disenchanted Vicious Which Two
Trump has seized the Republican nomination by finding scapegoats for the economic hardships and disintegrating lives of working-class whites while giving these voters a reassuring but false promise of their restoration to the center of American life. George Packer
Life Hardships Giving Promise Finding Restoration Economic Seized Voters Nomination False Trump American Center While Republican American Life Whites Working-Class Reassuring Lives
Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems. George Packer
Age Sign Systems Self-Confidence Journalism Surrendering Lack Jargon Dismal
Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be. George Packer
World Mind Analysis Everyone Philosophy Logic Finds Archaic Some Emerges Part Idea How His Personal Often Justification Should Views Her Early
Obama is the splendid fruit of a meritocracy. George Packer
Fruit Obama Splendid
It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics. George Packer
Independence Prevent Putin Reversing Soviet Going Essential Former Republics Farther Europe
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion. George Packer
War Religion Ideology Become Type Mystic He Putin Motherland Making Opposite Stands Appeals Universal
With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy. George Packer
Work Internet Increasingly Invisible Economy Effects Human Social Much Grasp Harder
Amazon's identity and goals are never clear and always fluid, which makes the company destabilizing and intimidating. George Packer
Goals Fluid Intimidating Never Clear Identity Makes Always Amazon Which Company
It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore. George Packer
Bookstore Seems Amazon Began Now
I actually think that self-interest is overrated as an all-purpose guide to political motive. It leaves out something at least as powerful and immovable - individual psychology. George Packer
Political Think Guide Out Immovable Something Individual Powerful Self-Interest Least Leaves Overrated Motive Psychology Actually
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party. George Packer
Broken Pressure Party Aggressive Down Increasingly Gingrich Abnormal More Individual Volatile Institutional Perhaps Self-Interest Self-Restraint Than Norms Republican Republican Party Far Even
What the Web has never figured out is how to pay for reporting, which, with the collapse of print newspapers, is in desperately short supply, and without which even the most prolific commenters will someday run out of things to say. George Packer
Will Pay Desperately Say Collapse Prolific Out Run Someday Web Never Supply Most Print Without How Reporting Short Which Newspapers Figured Even Things
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