The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

The biggest problem with Fox News is they take legitimate issues, twist them into a pretzel, and then give you back some scary monster that doesn’t actually exist.

He uses social media to create an echo chamber of his own supporters. It’s propaganda in its rawest form, where repetition, division, and emotional appeal replace any need for factual basis.

Behind the charisma and bravado, Elon Musk is just another billionaire whose real talent is leveraging public resources for private gain.

Trade barriers like tariffs restrict supply and limit competition, raising costs domestically and driving inflation as firms pass on these costs to consumers.

The United States is not immune to the democratic regression we’ve seen in other parts of the world. This is the moment we must choose whether we will fight to preserve our democracy.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

The Great Sedition Trial of 1944 remains a shameful blot on U.S. history.

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who don’t vote.

The biggest single driver of inflation today is corporate power. Large corporations are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices even higher than their increasing costs, resulting in record profits.

Speeches celebrated nationalism and white supremacy, under the guise of patriotism, in a venue where days earlier sports fans had cheered for equality on the field.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Think tanks are often better at creating the illusion of knowledge than providing the real thing.

You own and control the political process in America. You can now spend as much money as you want on any candidate you want. That is not democracy. That is oligarchy.

Debt is the slavery of the free.

The end of the gold standard may have stabilized some short-term issues, but it set us on a path to greater financial instability and inequality.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level—I mean the wages of a decent living.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more labor it sucks.

The Electoral College violates democratic norms because it allows for the possibility of a president being elected by a minority of voters.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.