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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe 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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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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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Fidel Castro, whatever people may think of him, is a hero in Latin America, primarily because he stood up to the United States.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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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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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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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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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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