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.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
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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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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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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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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‘election.’
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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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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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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