Hegemony is not defined by rivers or conventional borders - it's dominance, it's influence. So we get to decide in our hearts, are we in Iraq to help restore something, or are we there to establish dominance? How can you torture people and say, well, that's just a few bad apples in our culture?
Dar WilliamsI was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
Dar WilliamsWhen people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
Dar WilliamsWhat happened on "As Cool As I Am" was, you know how in the `90s, "the personal is political, the political is personal"? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
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