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James Mackenzie Fallows (born August 2, 1949) is an American writer and journalist. He has been a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly for many years. His work has also appeared in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker and The American Prospect, among others. He is a former editor of U.S. News & World Report, and as President Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter for two years was the youngest person ever to hold that job.

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Every previous era looks innocent.

Era, Eras, Innocent, Looks, Previous

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

Copyright, Current, Discussion, Giants, Patents, Reform

Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.

Born, Messages, People, Prejudice, Racial

The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [. . . ] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

Flag, Hands, Ignorance, Party, Reduction, Represented

Our military plans should be based on the assumption of unpredictability, rather than on carefully drawn, static models of the world.

Assumption, Based, Military, Models, Plans, World

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

Dream, Father, Hoary, Joke, Literary, World

Contrary to what you might think, China's economy is relatively less efficient, and more polluting, than those of rich countries.

Countries, Country, Polluting, Rich, Rich Countries, Thinking

Make the important interesting.

Important, Interesting, Make

The worst kind of management seeks a single optimum, a one-scale index of efficiency, like the mindless scales of 1 to 10 for grading a woman's beauty or one to four stars for a movie's appeal.

Appeal, Four, Stars, Women'S Beauty, Worst

It seems to be the case that for the people who actually are all in with Donald Trump - which is who knows: 35, 38, 40 per cent of the electorate - apparently nothing can dissuade them.

Apparently, Cases, Dissuade, People, Trump

According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.

Assessment, Capacity, Missiles, Oil, Percent, Technology

The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears that not merely stagnant ponds but the water people draw from deep underground is already tainted.

Air, Chinese, Cities, Contamination, People, Supply

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

Choices, Choose, Differences, History, Needs

Up or out" greatly magnified the careerist emphasis on holding a position rather than doing a job.

Bureaucracy, Careerist, Emphasis, Greatly, Jobs, Position

The whole point of constitutional democracy is the peaceful transfer of power; of Al Gore passing the baton to George W. Bush, even though that election was very suspiciously called.

Als, Democracy, Peaceful, Power, Though

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work

Class, Long, Periods, Pressure, Reality

I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.

Cases, Faces, Fact, Needs, Sarcastic

It is not widely known that, ever since the end of the Korean War, the United States has spent essentially the same amount of money on defense, in real terms, every single year.

Amount, Korean, Real, War, Years

The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material to present each of his protagonists in a convincing, respectful, but unsparing way. Even more valuable, he has used the interactions and tensions between Paul Nitze and George Kennan to bring much of American 20th century foreign policy to life, with human richness ever present but with the big issues clear in all their complexity.

Big, Book, Ideas, Issues, Richness, Valuable

I seem to be one of the few people in journalism who never worked or wrote for the 'Boston Phoenix. ' I certainly read and admired it, and feel the same general malaise at news that it is gone.

Admired, Boston, General, People, Phoenix

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