The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites.

The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.

So the first things that you see when you look up something on Google could be dependent on the amount of advertising or something else. Since it is a profit making institution, it is going to reflect the interests and concerns of those who fund it, which is advertisers.

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

There are many cases around the world in which the presence of UN peace-keeping forces has had a somewhat beneficial effect.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.