Will Marshall
Will Marshall
Will Marshall is one of the founders of the New Democrat movement, which aims to steer the US Democratic Party toward a more conservative orientation. Since its founding in 1989, he has been president of the Progressive Policy Institute, a think tank affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council...
ceremony events largest
The ceremony was one of the largest events in the town's history,
fire good mine obviously sometime
The fire is out, it's obviously good news. They're all safe, they're all secure, they're all accounted for and we'll be escorting them out of the mine sometime tonight.
accessible acute forward mortality older reducing step transplant
The findings were pretty striking, ... It would be a step forward in making transplant more accessible to more people, especially older people, and reducing the morbidity and mortality from acute GVHD.
book writing years
I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.
ideas philosopher moral
I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.
thinking way moral
I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in "the moral".
mean responsibility thinking
I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.
beautiful philosophy sublime
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.
challenges world facts
I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought.
mistake writing years
Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.
math accountants has-beens
I could never have been an accountant. I got a D in math.
return losing consciousness
I've never looked at a tax return without immediately losing consciousness.
opposites directors remember
It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.
joy cameras actors
My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.