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

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief..

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neit….

There is a phrase in trade theory; it's called "kicking away the ladder." First you violate the rules - the market rules - and then by the time you s….

I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a r….

It's true that many say that [they] object to the idea of "human nature," but it's not clear what that is supposed to mean. Are we different from ant….

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert..

As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership..

The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector..

Anything feasible and potentially effective should be explored..

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow..

Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at Nuremberg..

Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent. You can read ….

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By the late 1930s ….

Stock ownership in the US is very highly concentrated. [Shareholder actions are] something, but it's like the old Communist Party in the USSR, it wou….

It was declared by Congress that marijuana makes people insane. But . . . lawyers, defense lawyers, got the idea, OK, I can use this for an insanity ….

For a while, after the Second World War, when there was strong support for labor, this was done subtly..

People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of th….

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of….

It doesn't matter how much you learn in school; it's whether you learn how to go on and do things by yourself. And that can be done at any level..

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan..