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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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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the ‘engineering of consent’ by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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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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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
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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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