Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as a consequence of spiritual humility in the quest for understanding first and last things.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

[A]nti-Semitism was rife in almost all varieties of socialism.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.