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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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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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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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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If 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 invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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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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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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