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 CHOMSKYIn the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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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 truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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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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