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 CHOMSKYStability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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They come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they’re rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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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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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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