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 CHOMSKYOne 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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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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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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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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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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