…argue that it is unnecessary. Since at least 1893, Republicans have insisted that Democrats are bad at managing the nation’s finances, but that myth is suddenly under attack as recent…

…painful psychological sacrifices – she now felt obligated to give up on the myth of meritocracy. She in fact concluded that it was appropriate for her to be seen as…

…Does the Myth of the Confederate Lost Cause Persist? – The Atlantic For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe….

…MTM reforms. Of course, while everybody is talking about taxes, some of that talk is the same old endless market fundamentalist myth (Reaganomics) about how tax cuts are what make…

…on the big stuff. The single example was with Obamacare repeal when he knew he had only months to live. McCain also had a powerful personal myth which, even if…

…Rand. The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were fiction. All the better for those who loved a good myth; were too old to believe in Santa or play Cowboys and Indians;…

…an objectivist. But not really. I am amused and mildly charmed by her chutzpah but I cannot be seduced by her borscht-circuit philosophy. Rand inverted Leninism to construct a myth where…

…to the range and practice. The closer you are, the better the chance to hit the target. “The ‘Good Guy with a Gun’ Myth” | Giffords In spite of what…

…constitutional principles or judicial methodology. There is a desire to think that law exists apart from the identity and ideology of the justices. But that is a myth when it…

…planned to leverage the increased student loan debt into higher incomes Perhaps no form of credit better embodies the myth of a future, richer self than student loans. Under the…