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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Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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What 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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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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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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued – they may be essential to survival.
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