If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. -Timothy Noah Medical
Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. -Timothy Noah Wisdom
Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs. -Timothy Noah Technology
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. -Timothy Noah Equality
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. -Timothy Noah Marriage
Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. -Timothy Noah Chance
Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important. -Timothy Noah Teacher
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. -Timothy Noah Teacher
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. -Timothy Noah Death
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. -Timothy Noah Education
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. -Timothy Noah Equality
Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership. -Timothy Noah Leadership
Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. -Timothy Noah Wisdom
The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about. -Timothy Noah Learning
If you want to slow medical inflation in the private sector, it makes sense to expand the government's investment in private health care. -Timothy Noah Health
