Civil disobedience's main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic... →
Noam Chomsky
The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that sectarian... →
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens... →
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until... →
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's... →
September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world... →
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
What's important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it's... →