If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
NOAM CHOMSKYDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
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NATO’s essentially run by the United States.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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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 workers are more insecure, that’s very ‘healthy’ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations’ economic health.
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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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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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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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