Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand.

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

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

Obama's latest line is that he didn't establish a "red line" but the world did through its conventions on chemical warfare.

Human physical structures and intellectual structures are generally studied in different ways. The assumption is that physical structures are genetically inherited and intellectual structures are learned. I think that this assumption is wrong. None of these structures is learned. They all grow; they grow in comparable ways; their ultimate forms are heavily dependent on genetic predispositions.