If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.

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

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but it's possible that there could be a real revival of the labor movement.

I agree with Bill Clinton that US forces should not be sent to Haiti, but not for his reasons.

Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives?