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 CHOMSKYI 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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Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Governments don’t control people like they used to.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
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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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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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