John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
NOAM CHOMSKYEven in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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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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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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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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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‘third force,’ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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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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