AMERICA. CHANGE IT OR LOSE IT. During the 1960s, that was a rebuttal from the left to the Right's AMERICA. LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. I find lots of riffs on the latter slogan albeit little on the former. Now comes Freakonomics, with the winning entry in their six-word motto contest.

OUR WORST CRITICS PREFER TO STAY.

They elaborate.

[It is], while perhaps not outrightly uplifting, a wonderfully concise acknowledgment of the paradox that a capitalist democracy inevitably is: a place that is often well worth complaining about, and which allows you to complain as loudly as you wish.

Participants in the ensuing bull session concur in part and dissent in part.