Like him or not, Danto is the critic we deserve now, much as Clement Greenberg, the art critic for The Nation from 1941 to 1949, was the critic we deserved then.
If we are to give them the answers they deserve, then we must have a process in which they can have complete trust".
If one believes that people in a democracy get the government they deserve, then we in New York should be unable to look in the mirror without cringing.
On the other hand, if voters get the candidates they deserve, then maybe candidates deserve the moderators that try to get their goats.
If it's true, as George Orwell said, that by 50 people have the faces they deserve, then President Obama — whose birthday is Thursday — has fared well.
If it is true that people get the government they deserve, then many industries get the media coverage they merit as well.
If all MyRate accomplishes is to give Progressive's low-mileage customers the rate cut they deserve, then Progressive is doing little more than lowering its own revenues.
If there are solid reasons for PhDs being paid half of what they deserve, then the same hold good for professors.
If the operations of the free market are always moral — the concrete realization of the principle that you get no more and no less than what you deserve — then there's nothing in principle wrong with tremendous inequality.
Presumably, if it is a good thing when people get what they deserve, then if the people in world w1 are closer to getting what they deserve than then people in world w2, w1 is better (has a greater intrinsic value) than w2 (other things being equal).
