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Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah
American Journalist
Born: 1958
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The Supreme Court needs jurists, not politicians. Timothy Noah
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The Reagan years really were a bonanza for the rich; you didn't imagine that. Timothy Noah
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The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free. Timothy Noah
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Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that, in essence, you're telling the middle class, 'Tough luck; you should have stayed in college.' Timothy Noah
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Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines. Timothy Noah
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The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis. Timothy Noah
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To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. Timothy Noah
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Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientists be hamstrung by the requirement to use anesthesia in every animal experiment that might cause pain. Timothy Noah
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Income inequality has gotten worse under President Barack Obama. Timothy Noah
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If corporations are people, as the Supreme Court wishes us to believe, they are stunningly unpatriotic ones. Timothy Noah
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The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place. Timothy Noah
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The doomsayers of the 1970s were wrong about how quickly the world would run out of oil, but not about the dangers that hydrocarbon consumption posed to the global environment, especially with respect to climate change. Timothy Noah
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Presidential election results in 2008 and 2012 clarified that talk radio was not, in fact, running the country. Timothy Noah
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With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. Timothy Noah
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The federal government does not trample in jackboots those with whom it does business. It wraps them in cotton batting and, when they express ingratitude, apologizes profusely. Timothy Noah
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Working people vote! Timothy Noah
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
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You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome. Timothy Noah
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Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee's closet and doom the whole enterprise. Timothy Noah
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When businesses affirmatively like regulations, that's when to reach for your wallet. Timothy Noah
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The intriguing aspect of food charges on airlines is that they create the perfect laboratory for any economist who wishes to study the question of how to price a good that possesses, by universal consensus, absolutely no objective value. Timothy Noah
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Inequality doesn't create unhappiness. Timothy Noah
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I'm an incompetent consumer. I have two settings: Buy and Don't Buy. Timothy Noah
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Economic inequality is less troubling if you live in a country where any child, no matter how humble his or her origins, can grow up to be president. Timothy Noah
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It's no surprise that Mitt Romney bent himself into a pretzel to disavow the portions of Obamacare that derive from his own reform in Massachusetts. Timothy Noah
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Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms. Timothy Noah
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