But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas. - William Pfaff
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.
- William Pfaff
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: th… - William Pfaff
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: th…
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old. - William Pfaff
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if… - William Pfaff
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if…
But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they oft… - William Pfaff
But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they oft…
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion. - William Pfaff
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that … - William Pfaff
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that …
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the poli… - William Pfaff
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the poli…
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years. - William Pfaff
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
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