France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a 'third force,' independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.
Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.
There's a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how that developed from Early and Old English, and how that developed from Germanic, and that developed from what's called Proto-Indo-European, a source system that nobody speaks, so you have to try to reconstruct it.
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.
If you do a Google search, you will probably read a lot of stuff about how I am someone who wants to kill all the Jews and hates the United States.
Governments don't control people like they used to.
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Governments are supposed to lie to their citizens.
If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Guantanamo is still open, but it's unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.
Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.
Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.
Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.
Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.