In a society that has very high concentration of capital in a narrow sector of the population, that's going to influence everything in different ways.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents, sometimes [as a result of] highly adventurist acts of political leaders.

To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation. One should seek out an audience that matters - and furthermore (another important qualification), it should not be seen as an audience, but as a community of common concern in which one hopes to participate constructively.

...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.