At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on …

- George Packer

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

- George Packer

The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission …

- George Packer

Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In my 20s, it was the Vietnam War literature of no…

- George Packer

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumst…

- George Packer

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzlin…

- George Packer

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logi…

- George Packer

Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland …

- George Packer

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

- George Packer