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Zephyr Rain Teachout (born October 24, 1971) is an American academic, political activist, and former political candidate. She is an Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University

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I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.

Collapse, Dream, People, Society, Thinking

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

Actually, Made, Mistake, Power, Series, Tasks

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.

Art, Arts, Law, Politics, Professor, Thinking

My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.

Current, Goal, Think, Thinking, Way

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics.

Level, Levels, Like, Play, Secret

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

Power, Preceded, Tend, Thinking, Way

Integrity is hard work. I do think the internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform. So the temptations of social media lead to some dissonance.

Hard Work, Integrity, Internet, Media, Think, Thinking

What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.

Actually, Companies, Law, Laws, Political, Roles

Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

Creativity, Essential, Essentials, Joyful, Poems, Writing

If you think art is a competitive forum, then you're going to stop doing it if you're not good. But if it's not competitive, it's something that you'll keep doing.

Art, Forum, Forums, Think, Thinking

As a school board member, I might have particular views about the ways we might increase the economics curriculum in a local high school, but I'm not sure I should mandate that for the entire country.

Country, High, Increase, Particular, School, Views

A lot of politics plays at the level of myth, and if you understand that, then you feel like you have access to the secret language of politics. People respond to political characters in archetypal ways. A fun game is to think of a politician and ask, "Which god is that? Are they like Aries? Are they like Athena?".

Character, Fun, Plays, Political, Politics, Thinking

In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist populists and the white and black populists working together in the nineteenth century.

America, Dirty, Europe, Populism, Word

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.

Lying, Part, People, Think, Thinking

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a series of mistakes.

Democracy, Done, History, Mistake, People

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.

Book, Compared, Easy, Politics, Writing

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

Dream, Energy, Like, Power, Solar, Wind

Oftentimes people get it wrong when they say we need to educate voters first and then give them power. I tend to favor giving them power first.

Giving, Needs, Oftentimes, People, Tend

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a democracy into a plutocracy.

Government, Long, Political, Suspicion, Tradition

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

Believe, Dangerous, News, Nihilistic, Things, Wings

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