American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
Part of the population of Laos lives in urban centers, Vientiane being the largest.
The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
Free institutions certainly exist, but a tradition of passivity and conformism restricts their use - a cynic might say that this is why they continue to exist.
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
The childcare tax credit makes some sense.