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 CHOMSKYWhat 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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Civil disobedience is – it’s no fun.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
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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 more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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 childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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