{"author":"Cass Sunstein","author_id":"Cass+Sunstein","total_quotes":17,"quotes":[{"text":"Catholicism is a wide tent in terms of political and legal positions. We could have nine Catholics on the Supreme Court and a great deal of diversity toward the law.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["great","diversity","law "],"id":7,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"When President Barack Obama is trying to persuade Americans not to do something, he has a go-to line: 'That's not who we are.' Whether the issue involves discrimination, immigration, torture, criminal violence or health care, he invokes the nation's very identity.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["identity","violence "],"id":12386,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["love","life","world "],"id":83539,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"When it comes to discrimination, Americans pride ourselves on how far we've come. Racial segregation is history. Explicit sex discrimination is banned. Same-sex marriage is the law of the land. But amidst all the progress, the male-female wage gap persists, and it's big.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["marriage","progress","law "],"id":95139,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["change","truth","science "],"id":146998,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"If a major source of the nation's news is personalizing user experiences, people with different points of view will end up in echo chambers of their own design. Facebook didn't create that problem, but it shouldn't aggravate it.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["end","people","problem "],"id":186679,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["people","like","hire "],"id":258404,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"The process of getting regulations right is described publicly as far more political than in fact it is. It's essentially a legal and technical enterprise.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["political","process","right "],"id":312782,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"Many progressives understand Scalia, and other conservative judges, in crassly political terms - as opponents of affirmative action, abortion, gun control, and campaign finance legislation. But what Scalia cared most about was clear, predictable rules, laid down in advance.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["rules","gun control","gun "],"id":386658,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"},{"text":"If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.","author":"Cass Sunstein","tags":["women","past","performance "],"id":395372,"author_id":"Cass+Sunstein"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}