Insofar as the universities are free and independent, they will also be "subversive," in the sense that dominant structures of power and their ideological support will be subjected to challenge and critique, a counterpart to attitudes that are fostered in the hard sciences wherever they are taken seriously.

To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible only if there are some very sharp restrictive principles that lead you to go in one direction and not in another direction. Otherwise, you wouldn't have science at all, merely randomly chosen hypotheses.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

In fact, a rather striking aspect of business propaganda in the United States is the demonization of government, starting after the Second World War.

Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

What matters is what happens among the powerful.