Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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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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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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