Los Angeles Times
June 24, 2001
Opinion
Our national interest has become little more than making it easier for people to pursue their material dreams.
By Neal Gabler, a senior fellow at the Norman Lear Center at USC Annenberg
“… to be a nation a people must have a sense of something other than their own self-interest. It is a message the current president might well heed, for without it… we are not citizens, only consumers.”
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