Split-ticket voting (one party for President, the other for Congress), 1900 to 2010

An aggregate measure of economic inequality, political polarization, social fragmentation, and cultural narcissism (the "I-we-I" curve) from 1890 to 2020...though he later clarifies, "Because African Americans, women, and many others had to fight to achieve any basic form of equality and inclusion during the first two thirds of the twentieth century...any supposed 'we' America was moving toward in this period was inherently racist and sexist"

“How do we build community in a modern world? How do you explore relationships in a world that is going to have television, that will include email, artificially extended days because of electric lights, and automobiles, airplanes, psychoactive drugs, plastic surgery...? How do we deal with the presence of all those things and create a world that...enhances our connections to others rather than ignores or disrupts them?”

"Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other."

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality- judiciously, as you will- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
-anonymous aide to George W. Bush, 2004

"We might think that a solid rule of 'simplify, simplify' is almost all we need to make sure our charts remain junk-free and thus effective...this is not the case."