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 CHOMSKYUnlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Sometimes I lose my temper.
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Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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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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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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In the case of the environment, there’s no one to bail it out.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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