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Cass Robert Sunstein FBA (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics, who was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012. For 27 years, Sunstein taught at the University of Chicago Law School. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. He is Honorary Doctor at Copenhagen Business School.

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There is no liberty without dependency. That is why we should celebrate tax day.

Celebrate, Day, Dependency, Liberty, Should

The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 - she's really good, but I don't think it's written in the stars.

2016, Become, Ideas, Stars, Taylor, Thinking

Whatever your gender, you can be a Star Wars fan. Of course I knew it from life before, but the core of enthusiastic female fans is a testimony to the non-gendered nature of the audience.

Core, Female, Gender, Nature, War, Wars

Sometimes, the word 'voluntary' is a little complicated.

Complicated, Littles, Sometimes, Voluntary, Word

The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.

Background, Business, Class, Middle, Might, Policy

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

Challenges, Climate, Defining, Focused, People, Thinking

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.

Fun, Hunting, Sport, Sports, Suggest, Time

I think President Barack Obama has been an extraordinarily successful president, and that this period will record that with a bunch of exclamation points. But obviously not everybody thinks that.

Everybody, Obviously, Points, President, Successful, Thinking

My own view is that institutions are a glory, and for all their imperfections, something really to be proud of. It is true that things can be a lot better than they are. It's okay to emphasize that.

Imperfection, Institutions, Proud, True, View, Views

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

Culture, Extreme, Ideas, Succeed, Times

It's fair to say that there's something retrograde about putting the leader of Star Wars rebellion in the position of "slave in a bikini. " There's no question that that's a fair point. But, it is true, and it's kind of remarkable, that at this point in our history, the slave girl, for a time in the bikini, is the one who chokes her captor with her bare hands and using the chain with which he bound her. That's powerful stuff. That's more retributive feminism than I think teenaged boys had ever seen.

Girl, Powerful, Seen, Stuff, Time, War

A well-functioning democracy has a culture of free speech, not simply legal protection of free speech. It encourages independence of mind. It imparts a willingness to challenge prevailing opinion through both words and deeds. Equally important, it encourages a certain set of attitudes in listeners, one that gives a respectful hearing to those who do not embrace the conventional wisdom. In a culture of free speech, the attitude of listeners is no less important than that of speakers.

Attitude, Attitudes, Deeds, Democracies Have, Giving, Wisdom

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

Extremist, Extremist Groups, Government, Light, Suffer, Various

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft

Craft, Lawyers, Pride, Professional, Thinking, Uprising

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

Accomplished, Aids, Climate, Foreign, Occur, Possible

How do things, whether they are movies, or plays, Hamilton, or people, ideas - how do they become transformative or iconic? That is in some ways what the actual Star Wars saga gets at, with the tale of the rise and the fall of the empire and the rise and the fall of Republics.

Fall, Hamilton, Republics, Stars, War, Ways

So, you could often say things are terrible and that accounts for what happened, or things are really bright, and that accounts for what happened. Often, the real explanation for what happened is much more subtle and interesting and involves maybe small shocks or what a couple people did on a Wednesday morning that changed the arc of history.

Changed, Couple, Involves, Morning, Real

A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.

Old, People, Program, Saves, Welfare

I love The Matrix, especially the first one.

Firsts, Love, Matrix

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

Done, Know, Manipulate, People, Simpson

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