American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism.
I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
My family was mostly unemployed working class.
The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.
I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.
I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
When a politician uses the word 'folks,' we should brace ourselves for the deceit, or worse, that is coming.
I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.
The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
In November 2007, the White House issued a Declaration of Principles demanding that U.S. forces must remain indefinitely in Iraq and committing Iraq to privilege American investors.
In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!