China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is... →
James Dyson
Barack Obama has come closer than any figure in recent history to obeying a direct call of the people to the brutal and bloody fields of political... →
Michael Eric Dyson
If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that... →
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory... →
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history... →
F. W. de Klerk
India is a very, very old country with a history, culture and tradition like Italy. And we can use the English language to be in touch. Then... →
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for... →
Terry Eagleton
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation... →
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and... →
If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research... →