If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.

[My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore. He told me later that this guy was coming around, and the guy seemed to be for the workers, so he signed up. It turned out that guy was an IWW organizer . My father didn't regret signing up; he just really didn't know what was going on.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Welsh is now almost a national language in Wales. The Scottish dialects are reviving to some extent. I don't think it's a major thing, but it's there, and it's happening elsewhere.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.