180 Quotes by Jill Lepore

If you know a lot about something and apply that information to a vote that matches your policy preferences, your opinion quality is high.

In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.

In the nineteen-thirties, one in four Americans got their news from William Randolph Hearst, who lived in a castle and owned twenty-eight newspapers in nineteen cities.

In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.

In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

Disrupt, and you will be saved.