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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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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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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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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