Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
If you're worried about the deficit, pay attention to the fact that it's almost all attributable to military spending and the totally dysfunctional health program.
In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.
The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.
The government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
When Reagan left office, he was the most unpopular living president, apart from Nixon, even below Carter. If you look at his years in office, he was not particularly popular. He was more or less average. He severely harmed the American economy.
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.
The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination', we might say - exercised through the mass media.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
Under Clinton, the defiance of world order has become so extreme as to be of concern even to hawkish policy analysts.
There was unprecedented elite condemnation of the plans to invade Iraq. Sensible analysts were able to perceive that the enterprise carried significant risks for U.S. interests, however conceived.