If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
NOAM CHOMSKYThere’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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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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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial entity which cannot be divided.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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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 Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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