That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Mexico is a pretty poor country, but they are maintaining a free, high quality public education system, not for everyone of course but pretty substantial.

Farming out atrocities to paramilitaries is standard operating procedure.

There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what were the alternatives? There was actually a proposal by Camillo Berneri, an Italian anarchist who was in Spain at the time, which is not a crazy notion in my opinion. He opposed participation in government and was against the formation of an army, meaning a major army to fight [Francisco] Franco.

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.