Quote of the Day

MANIFESTO

I’d say we spend too much time debating political events and the choices leaders make and not enough time debating the structure of political institutions and the impersonal economic and systemic forces that drive the choices leaders make.
— Ezra Klein
Indeed. Too many pundits—and bloggers, including yours truly, no doubt—concern themselves too much with the symptoms of the problem when, in fact, they should be considering the disease itself: the fact that the way American political institutions currently work simply isn't conducive to the political and cultural health of the nation.

I don't expect this situation to change in my lifetime, but, then again, how many Egyptians thought they'd die with Mubarak still in power?