To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

I've never seen a study, but my sense is that these are people who feel really aggrieved. These people think, "I've done everything right all my life, I'm a god-fearing Christian, I'm white, I'm male, I've worked hard, and I carry a gun. I do everything I'm supposed to do. And I'm getting shafted." And in fact they are getting shafted. For 30 years their wages have stagnated or declined, the social conditions have worsened, the children are going crazy, there are no schools, there's nothing, so somebody must be doing something to them, and they want to know who it is.

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

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

[Donald Trump] guru Steve Bannon is worse, he's much scarier. He probably knows what he's doing.