Occupation: Linguist Birth: December 7, 1928
Now, the Libertarian Party, is a *capitalist* party. It's in favor of what *I* would regard a *particular form* of authoritarian control. Namely, the….
Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities for radical so….
...free enterprise, [is] a term that refers, in practice, to a system of public subsidy and private profit, with massive government intervention in t….
As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear weapons or not. C….
I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience..
Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, ….
In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spe….
You can see it in the worship of [Ronald] Reagan, which portrays him as somebody who saved us from government. Actually he was an apostle of big gove….
When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in t….
You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence..
My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most part unaware, perhaps blinded….
It is not a war. It is murder..
I think religion has often played a very positive role. Take western civilization, the Catholic Church has played an honorable role in helping those ….
They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has..
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed proposition….
There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to b….
Over the years, there's been case after case when there were very narrow decisions that had to be made about whether to launch nuclear weapons in ser….
I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as insti….
In the moral calculus of currently prevailing state capitalism, profits and bonuses in the next quarter greatly outweigh concern for the welfare of o….
I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community..
The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victim….