What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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