If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYBut 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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Unlimited 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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The 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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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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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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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It’s a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can’t get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.
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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt.
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