The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular, others who also enjoy a degree of privilege and power, and therefore have the responsibilities that are conferred by those advantages.

Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved."

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden cannot be met.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.