In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush's compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.

Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.