It is a privilege to join the campaign to support Bradley Manning for his courage and integrity in serving his country by helping make the government accountable to its citizens, and to inform the world of what its people should know.

Not being optimistic falls a long way short of predicting that all is finished.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

In the US, first of all, the electoral system has been almost totally shredded. For a long time it's been pretty much run by private concentrated spending but now it's over the top. Elections increasingly over the years have been [public relations] extravaganzas.

While I think in principle people should not have irrational beliefs, I should say that as a matter of fact, it is people who hold what I regard as completely irrational beliefs who are among the most effective moral actors in the world, in many respects. They're among the worst, but also among the best, even though the moral beliefs are ostensibly the same.