Isn't it interesting that eating a banana is somehow comical..

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history..

The racism in Europe takes the form of anti-immigrant extremism - which is bad enough here - I think it's hard to measure, but my guess is that it's ….

China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, So….

Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group..

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, ….

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact..

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because th….

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remem….

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system..

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer af….

With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor of Sta….

I am not sure just what Marx had in mind when he wrote that "philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to c….

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take ….

As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared,….

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college..

The media want to maintain their intimate relation to state power. They want to get leaks, they want to get invited to the press conferences. They wa….

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining..

My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, acad….

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong..

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or ….