If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYIt is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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Immediately, the United States and Israel set about separating the two and making sure that they would not be united.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‘among the most unspeakable crimes in history.
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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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