Trump keeps the spotlight on himself with one act after another, assuming correctly that yesterday's antics will be swept aside by today's.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions.

It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The real world teaches very different lessons, and it takes willful and dedicated ignorance to fail to perceive them.

All media depend on advertisement to survive.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

As far as DSA is concerned, I'm perfectly happy to be associated with it while disagreeing with a large part of the leadership.