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01 / evaluation
“I don’t necessarily think it is wrong, other than the fact that, right now, the economy is about 85 percent government.”
02 / evaluation
“Whereas prior to Kennedy, I think there was really a structural reason why you wouldn’t have had a Catholic president because there was a strong anti-Catholic dimension in the population.”
03 / evaluation
“The problem is, if we try and mash those together and outlaw this identity, we store up more trouble than if we simply say, “Okay.”
04 / evaluation
“closed cultural dimension, values dimension, more directly than the economic left/right — which didn’t engage that dimension as much — I think the fact that these immigration diversity–related issues very much do engage those psychological dimensions, I think that then becomes more the basis of politics over time.”
05 / evaluation
“One of the reasons their populations have exploded is partly because they reject modern contraception, but also limiting family size.”
06 / evaluation
“I think that part of this is that, because the society is still relatively patriarchal, it has that very low fertility.”
07 / evaluation
“Tocquevillian in the sense I’m not a sort of libertarian individualist, and I do think there’s an importance in having social cohesion and a social fabric to underpin some of the good things that we enjoy in Western democracy.”