The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible only if there are some very sharp restrictive principles that lead you to go in one direction and not in another direction. Otherwise, you wouldn't have science at all, merely randomly chosen hypotheses.

There certainly are those who worship the state much as divinities are worshipped. Not just the state but even leaders.

I listen to talk radio a lot and it's kind of interesting. If you can sort of suspend your knowledge of the world and just enter into the world of the people who are calling in, you can understand them.

The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided . . . democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured; they may well be essential to survival.

The United States is going to continue to punish Iran because of its defiance.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.