More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive from their heads evil ideas, such as the belief that wage labor was not much different from chattel slavery. That continues to the present, now sometimes taking the form of an attack on public education.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

Half the population hold that the government is run by a few big interests looking out for themselves, as polls regularly show.

the Federal Reserve, has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment... The European central bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult.

Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.