As long as each individual is facing the television tube alone, formal freedom poses no threat to privilege

I have written occasionally on links between my scientific work and political thinking, but not much, because the links seem to me abstract and speculative.

For example, the insurance industries and the big banks are absolutely euphoric now - on the business pages they don't even conceal it - because they've succeeded in coming out of the crisis even stronger than they were before, and in a better position to lay the basis for the next crisis. But they don't care, because they'll get bailed out again. That's class consciousness with a vengeance.

Israel has a couple of hundred nuclear weapons and also chemical and biological weapons. This stockpile is not only a threat in itself but encourages others to proliferate in reaction and in self-defense. Is anybody saying anything about this?

These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

[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.

A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.