Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

US wars are going to be against much weaker enemies. And they have to be won quickly and decisively before a popular reaction develops.

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be a disaster. There's some resistance to that now. In the US, it's essentially off-shoring production and financialization and getting rid of superfluous population through incarceration.

They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

The capacity to transfer production elsewhere is a weapon against the Western workers.

One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We have a whole mass of complex ways of understanding what is the nature of visual space. A proper part of psychology ought to be, and in recent years has been, an effort to try to discover the principles of how we organize visual space. I would say that the same is true of every domain of psychology, of human studies.