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Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws a...more

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Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disab...more

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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the...more

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When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed t...more

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The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

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Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be st...more

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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist ...more

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If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional he...more

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If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his p...more

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Today, we have private airline companies, but if you take a look at a Boeing plane next time you travel, you'll see that you are basically taking a ri...more

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You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant l...more

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It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most...more

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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sen...more

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Case by case, we find that conformity is the easy way, and the path to privilege and prestige; dissidence carries personal costs that may be severe, e...more