[There is] is all part of the whole neoliberal shift in the economy. But the parties have shifted to the right.

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

I don't know what it means to say that 'the internet should have a voice in Washington'.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

People will find some ways of identifying themselves, becoming associated with others, taking part in something. They're going to do it some way or other. If they don't have the options of participation in labor unions, political organizations that actually function, they'll find other ways. Religious fundamentalism is a classic example.

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people could be an electoral base to keep them in power.