
William Pfaff
William Pfaff was an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Council Bluffs
- Educated at
- University of Notre Dame
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Trending topics shown first"The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres."
"The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years."
"Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion."
"But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think."
"The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old."
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1928
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Birth2015
Died
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