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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

Environment

Change

Respect

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" Whenever the very rich hold views at odds with those of the entire population, the federal government tends to do the rich's bidding. "

" Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around. "

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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. "

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" I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama. "

" When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. "