152 Quotes by Timothy Noah

One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.

To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy.

Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.

We Americans love our Constitution so much that we can't bear to change even the stupid parts.

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death.

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

What I've learned, and will try to remember from now on, is that defending your country's credibility is never sufficient reason to fight a war.