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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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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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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 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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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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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.
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