The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control – ‘indoctrination’, we might say – exercised through the mass media.
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