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My 1950s
(1993)
I want to live in a place again where I can
walk down any street without being
afraid. I want to be able to take my
daughter to a park at any time of day or
night in the summertime and remember
what I used to be able to do when I was a
little kid.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, New York Times Magazine.

My friend Edward Shils, one of the great sociologists of the past century, read Dickens, Balzac, Conrad, and Cather over and over; and there can be little doubt that his having done so made him a better social scientist. I shall never forget Edvard telling me one evening how much he admired Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and other free-market economists who were his colleagues at the University of Chicago.
"They are highly intelligent," he said, " and subtle and penetrating and have intellectual courage. Yet with all that, Joseph, I fear that they are insufficiently impressed with the mysteries of life."