In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut 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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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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The U.S. – the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that’s hardly even a joke.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.
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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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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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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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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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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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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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