Kwame Anthony Appiah

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“the presidency is a very constrained office and it is extremely hard, even when you have both houses controlled by your party, to get things done.”

2011-11-27

“Both of these things are good for America, I believe, and the first was especially good for black America which is disproportionately underserved by our current healthcare system.”

2011-11-27

“In dealing with the financial crisis, for example, so it seems to me, his administration has done too little for the poor and too much to please the masters and mistresses of the world of finance.”

2011-11-27

“She is one of my heroes and this is a book about how someone who grasps dignity, which is a form of honour based in our humanity, can resist the world of the negative side of honour, where women are punished because…”

2012-11-21, book, by Mukhtar Mai, recommended

“I disagree with a lot of what he says – in particular that he wants to give up on honour because it has such negative connotations: I think it needs reform as a concept – but I think it's a very lovely piece of…”

2012-11-21, book, by Frank Henderson Stewart, recommended

“This is another beautiful piece of scholarship by an eminent historian, but you don't have to be an academic to read it. It's about a really interesting subject that I think would interest anybody.”

2012-11-21, book, by Christopher Leslie Brown, recommended