[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.

Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It's something you have to find out for yourself.

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.

The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph was far more radical than that from telephone to email!

The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

Chemistry, until my childhood, not that long ago, was regarded as a calculating device. Because you couldn't reduce to physics. So it's just some way of calculating the result of experiments. The Bohr atom was treated that way.

U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here.