Rick Perlstein : (3) " Economic issues are a subset of social justice. Social justice is unimaginable without economic justice. Isn’t that obvious? " - Rick Perlstein " Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I’m willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct. " - Rick Perlstein " Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry’s very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. " - Rick Perlstein