There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind

In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in the world. The last remnant of the commons is the environment, which the indigenous people are still trying to preserve and we sophisticated rich people are trying to destroy.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

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.