[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned.

Academics are not necessarily nice people.

I don't see much use in general slogans. Sometimes it is worth resisting evil with lesser evil, very commonly in fact.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

For thirty years, Isreal has been highjacking ships in international waters, killing people, taking hostages, bringing them to Israel, putting them in secret prisons, all with the help of the United States. That's serious piracy.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.