The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
NOAM CHOMSKYI like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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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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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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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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If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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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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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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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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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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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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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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