If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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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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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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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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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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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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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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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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