Washington Post (November 14)
“The growing interest in witches and witchcraft speaks to a uniquely unsettled moment in U.S. history — and an unprecedented loss of hope felt by an entire generation. Absent anything else to hold on to, we’re reaching into the dark.”
Tags: Generation, History, Hope, Interest, Loss, U.S., Unprecedented, Unsettled, Witchcraft, Witches
Seeking Alpha (October 11)
“Recent history has taught us to buy the dip. Even the eye-watering declines in February proved worth buying. But this time looks different. This may not be a dip worth buying.”
The Atlantic (October Issue)
“Estrangements are political, not personal…. Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will…. Polarization is normal…. Skepticism about liberal democracy is also normal. And the appeal of authoritarianism is eternal.”
Tags: Appeal, Authoritarianism, Democracy, History, Liberal democracy, Polarization, Skepticism, Society
Wall Street Journal (November 8)
“The world’s most valuable public company just made more history.” Shares in Apple “rose 0.8% Wednesday to close at a new all-time high of $176.24, giving the iPhone maker a market value of $904.9 billion.” The advance makes Apple “the first U.S. company to reach the $900 billion threshold, having already become the first to hit $800 billion.”
Tags: All-time high, Apple, History, iPhone, Market-cap, Shares, U.S., Valuable
Washington Post (October 26)
“While we obsess over Trump, China is making history.”
The Atlantic (May 16)
“The bad news is that Donald Trump is the most incompetent president in modern American history. The good news is that Donald Trump is the most incompetent president in modern American history.”
Tags: History, Incompetent, Trump, U.S.
The Week (May 3)
“The takeaway from Trump’s first 100 days in office isn’t a list of accomplishments or failures but rather a nugget of hard-won knowledge about the president himself: He is so comprehensively ignorant of policy and history, so thoroughly lacking in a core of settled beliefs or convictions, that the Oval Office might as well be unoccupied.”
Bloomberg (December 11)
“Even for a country with a modern history as tumultuous as South Korea, 2016 has been an eventful year. This was the year that a confluence of business failures, political scandal and economic malaise brought the strongest signs yet that the system that made South Korea a global industrial powerhouse may be about to change.”
Tags: 2016, Business failures, Economic malaise, Eventful, History, Political scandal, Powerhouse, South Korea, Tumultuous
LA Times (October 6)
“President Obama could be right in saying history may judge the ratification of the Paris Agreement as ‘a turning point for our planet.’ But if meaningful reductions in carbon emissions don’t follow, then history will judge this as the moment when the world acknowledged it had a problem, yet failed to fix it. The longer the world—and governments—dillydally, the more likely future generations will regard us as fools.”
Washington Post (June 1)
“British voters, who may be as weary as many Americans are of constantly being told that they cannot ‘turn back the clock’ and that history’s centralizing ratchet has clicked irreversibly too many times, might soon say otherwise.”
Tags: Brexit, Centralizing, History, Irreversibly, U.S., UK, Voters, Weary
