I think that sooner or later the white working-class constituency will recognize, and in fact, much of the rural population will come to recognize, t….

Virtually all informed observers agree that a fair and equitable resolution of the plight of the Palestinians would considerably weaken the anger and….

The childcare tax credit makes some sense..

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle..

On nuclear war, actions in Syria and at the Russian border raise very serious threats of confrontation that might trigger war, an unthinkable prospec….

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, ….

I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what you do and buil….

I remember talking to, 40 years ago, one of the leading people in the government who was involved in arms control, pressing for arms control measures….

How many educated Americans can even remember the names of the assassinated Jesuit intellectuals of El Salvador, or would know where to find a word t….

The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. ….

Education is imposed ignorance..

It’s not going to be easy to proceed. There are going to be barriers, difficulties, hardships, failures - it’s inevitable. But unless the spirit of t….

There's a very committed effort to convert the US into something resembling a Third World society, where a few people have enormous wealth and a lot ….

Most of us who were opposed to the war, especially in the early '60's - the war we were opposed to was the war on South Vietnam which destroyed South….

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion..

There clearly is a serious race problem in the country. Just take a look at what's happening to African American communities. For example wealth, wea….

Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the ….

Violence can succeed, as Americans know well from the conquest of the national territory. But at terrible cost. It can also provoke violence in respo….

The whole intelectual culture has a filtering system, starts as a child in school. You're expected to accept certain beliefs, styles, behavioral patt….

We use the official definitions of terrorism. The definitions in the U.S. code, in British law, in U.S. Army manuals and so on. And if you use those ….

Personally, I am uneasy about the notion of "a politically engaged university," for reasons I wrote about over 30 years ago, at the height of protest….