In the early 1940s, as a young teenager, I was utterly appalled by the racist and jingoist hysteria of the anti-Japanese propaganda. The Germans were evil, but treated with some respect: They were, after all, blond Aryan types, just like our imaginary self-image. Japanese were mere vermin, to be crushed like ants.

They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed.

During the 1990's, Colombia was the leading recipient of US military aid and training in the hemisphere. Approximately half of all US aid in the hemisphere went to Colombia. Colombia was also far and away the leading human rights violator in the hemisphere.

For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly.

It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works.

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

The freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.