what are our expectations? which of the things we desire are within reach? if not now, when? and will there be some left for me? i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found some something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la china s younger generation is driving a growth in consumption. this is where the real power is china. if you live in manhattan like i do and you think you live in the center of the world, this place, shanghai, will confront you with a very different reality. turn down a side street, it s an ancient culture. a centuries-old mix of culinary traditions, smells, flavors. a block away, this. an ultra modern, clanging cash register, levels of wealth, luxury, the sheer volume of things and services unimagined by the greediest, most bourgeois of capitalist imperialists. the city split by the
Priority because you are not likely to get to the third. Uc obama facing that now with climate change, the fiscal deal, emigration, etc. The issue is not whether he supports those, what is he willing to go to the mat for . I think what we face and the Standing Committee may be people in favor of reform but we do not have a clue as to whether they are prepared to go to the mat for the same reforms and whether they can Reach Agreement on tough decisions with an agreed upon priority for those decisions. The candidates who did to their hands as to what changes they would like to see did not make it on to the Standing Committee. They fixed it ties they do not get you far in anticipating substantive positions and priorities. That does not necessarily get you to there. But the substantive positions and priorities are important for anticipating what the anticipation future is going to hold. Substantively, serious reform is a very complicated matter. Much more complicated in china than in the u
My former colleague says marriage is two things a standard form contract that establishes certain kinds of liberal basic rights but also a sanctification. Constituting form. She argues in liberal state has no business sanctifying relationships and that will be ought to be doing is be establishing, disestablishing marriages altogether. Do you see that 20 years and now when you give this talk will not even use the word marriage . It depends a william e. My liberal. If you are a libertarian liberal, as the Cato Institute is, they would say yes. If you are more of the state should create conditions for human flourishing, the answer is not simple. Here is what i will say more broadly. One of the easy mistakes of the whole debate is an over investment in lesbian and gay people on marriage and family lot generally. Most people who are in relationships are in relationships between different sexes. There are millions of them. Theyre wonderful. They produced a bolt of children. What goes on in f
Theyre in compliance. We have won against isis. We have beaten them and beaten them badly. While isis is nearing territorial defeat in syria, they are returning to their roots. Knocking the hell out of isis. Isis still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. A lot of contrast between President Trumps rhetoric on big Foreign Policy issues and what the senate had to say yesterday for worldwide threat assessments hearing. One issue noybly absent, the border with mexico. Trump and his intelligence chiefs did not once mention the need for a wall along the southern border President Trump portrayed as the single most pressing need for the country. More specifically, youre talking about National Security threats for america. Not only do they not talk about the wall, they didnt talk specifically about the southern border. Or caravans. Nor should they. Or caravans. Crossings again have been going down for well over a decade, Illegal Drugs you can ship directly to john heilemanns abode.