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01 / belief
“I think we blame Facebook and Twitter, conventionally, for it. But I don’t think that it’s necessarily just about the technological modes.”
02 / belief
“I didn’t reach this level, but the managers who have to pick the other managers — they are doing something that must be, I think, really hard to even conceptualize, but must have incredible influence on the success of really big organizations.”
03 / belief
“I think the configuration would involve something like a very unpopular Republican administration being replaced with a very left-wing Democratic president who, for the demographic-balance reasons in Congress, doesn’t have majority support in the Senate, and who then faces a lot of pressure from his supporters to govern in extra-constitutional ways.”
04 / belief
“I am not a literary person on any level, but I think that a certain kind of social-realist fiction writing has become unfashionable and that applies to him and his books and also to my grandfather’s books.”
05 / belief
“People don’t know who they are or who does what — things like that — and trying to get a … Lenin said, “better fewer, but better,” which I think you could accomplish a lot with in local governments in the United States.”
06 / belief
“I think there’s a pretty good chance that Covid pushes it back toward more of that ’90s equilibrium.”
07 / belief
“I think we’re learning that there is stuff going on off the court that is impacting what we see on the court in a more clear way than we necessarily knew.”
08 / belief
“I think correctly rated. At this point, everyone with a brain sees LeBron for what he is, and he’s excellent.”
09 / belief
“Where would I short? I think definitely San Francisco, which is not just taking this Covid hit.”
10 / belief
“” Knowing that and being assertive, I think, has proven its value in the NBA over the past 10, 15 years.”
11 / belief
“I think not a lot of people know about Maine off the coast. Interior Maine and the North Maine Woods are really cool and great in a very different way from coastal Maine.”
12 / belief
“I think Donald Trump is a poor role model in social and personal life, and that we should encourage elite high-profile people to talk about commitment and marriage and why it’s valuable — things like that.”
13 / belief
“I think most people do not pay attention to what the end of Anarchy, State, and Utopia actually says, or to some of his other books.”
14 / belief
“I’m not saying it’s not true, but that’s not something that I think about or situate myself with.”
15 / belief
“My main aspiration in writing that essay is to try to get people — American people — to be a little less mad at each other and to have a little bit more recognition of the extent to which there are structural issues in our governance that is making it hard for us to proceed and that it’s not all “Oh my God, what the hell is wrong with those people?” Because if problems arise, if something goes badly wrong, I think you want to say what they did after the Articles of Confederation, which is, “We need to change the rules here.”
16 / belief
“I think probably we say that religiousness is almost constitutive of right-wingy-ness, at least in some definitions.”
17 / belief
“Democrats, I think, will probably beat Trump because people don’t think that’s what electing Biden would accomplish.”
18 / belief
“We’ve had some big advances in fracking, some promising advances in solar power, some other kinds of things like that. But the fundamentals of how we produce and use energy have driven a lot in the macro picture, and I think the news from the latter quarter, whatever it is, of the 20th century — on that front was just very disappointing, notwithstanding other things that might power growth forward.”
19 / belief
“Of course, sometimes people’s aspirations are wildly unrealistic, or they’re incompatible with each other, or something like that. But I think we know that a world in which most people have two or three children instead of one or two children is a perfectly plausible scenario.”
20 / belief
“I think having larger families is probably bad for women’s equality in the top 0.”
21 / belief
“I think in terms of direct public provision of things is one way in which some of the small countries really suggest nonlibertarian solutions to problems that I don’t think is appropriate for America or would be for the future.”