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 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. - Timothy Noah 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
Was President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage crassly political? God, I hope so. - Timothy Noah 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work. - Timothy Noah 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -