In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf 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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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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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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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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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