Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines.

Right now, where do we stand? Well right at the Russian border, both sides have been taking provocative actions, both sides are building up military forces. NATO forces are carrying out maneuvers hundreds of yards from the Russian border, the Russian jets are buzzing American jets. Anything could blow up in a minute.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

The reason I am a political radical is that I work on syntax. If I worked on semantics (which in fact I do), I'd be a good Thatcherite.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York shops, thanks to the miracle of the market.

The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.