Concentration of ownership in the media is high and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status withi….

Occupying armies have responsibilities, not rights. Their primary responsibility is to withdraw as quickly and expeditiously as possible, in a manner….

I felt that we could hardly improve on the conception of the university expressed by one of the founders of the modern system, Wilhelm von Humboldt, ….

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable..

If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no hope..

There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the st….

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none..

The [Barack] Obama administration has pressured Mexico to keep them away from the Mexican border, so that they don't succeed in reaching the United S….

Every time a candidate came up from the base, that is with popular support, the Republican establishment went into high gear to destroy them with mas….

I do not see how we can rationally oppose high speed rail because of the environmental and other costs without considering the social and human conse….

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses ….

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party..

George Washington hated the guerrillas. He wanted to imitate the British red coat armies, fighting as gentlemen are supposed to fight..

Those who wish to change the world should have the best possible understanding of the world, including what is revealed by the sciences, some of whic….

The Bush Administration do have moral values. Their moral values are very explicit: shine the boots of the rich and the powerful, kick everybody else….

If you owned everything and a tiny little piece gets out of control, then your world's gone. Like some unusual child who has a million toys and one o….

CEOs pretty much pick the boards that give them salaries and bonuses. That's one of the reasons why the CEO-to-payment [ratio] has so sharply escalat….

The main purpose of advertising is to undermine markets. If you go to graduate school and you take a course in economics, you learn that markets are ….

I admire Ralph Nader and Denis Kucinich very much, and insofar as they bring up issues and carry out an educational and organisational function - tha….

[CIA manipulating] has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It's a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation un….

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge..