If you take an economics or a political science course, you're taught that humans are supposed to be rational wealth accumulators, each acting as an individual to maximize his own wealth in the market.

People tend to rally around power.

When [ Paul Johnson] got to me he was in trouble, because I'm an old-fashioned conservative: married when I was 21, stayed married, 3 kids, live in the suburbs, no scandals, so nothing to write about. So what he did is concoct one of the nuttiest claims I've ever seen.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

Bear in mind that capitalism is a tiny period of human society. You never really had capitalism, you always had one or another variant of state capitalism.

In fact, the capitalist class in the '50s was sort of part of a social contract. It was part of the tenor of the times.

The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.