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

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.

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

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.