Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe.

I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left” you mean people who are committed to peace and justice and freedom and so on, there can’t be elements of the left opposed to workers’ movement, at least under that definition.

One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.

They, students have a degree of freedom that nobody else has.

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

It is an astonishing fact about the current era that in the most powerful country in world history, with a high level of education and privilege, one of the two political parties virtually denies the well-established facts about anthropogenic climate change.

The internet is something created largely by public funding.