There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

In the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the US government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That's all to the good.

I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

Suppose that, say, China established military bases in Colombia to carry out chemical warfare in Kentucky and North Carolina to destroy this lethal crop [tobacco] that is killing huge numbers of Chinese.