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Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.
I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.
It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.
As I have said, the best Bush strategy is to put Congress on TV as often as possible.
I joke about it being a millstone, but it never hurts to have a name that sticks out.
In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.
The qualities that make Twitter seem inane and half-baked are what makes it so powerful.
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
Collective decisions about health care and education are best answered on a local level.
Refusing to grant clemency is a failure of one of the most basic jobs of being governor.
Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.
We fought a revolution to free ourselves from arbitrary power and the whims of a monarch.
If what you are getting online is for free, you are not the customer, you are the product.
The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.
I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.
Search engines generally treat personal names as search terms like any others: Data is data.
Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.
I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.
Voters have a responsibility to make a judgment with whatever facts are available on Election Day.
A government should not become too big to fulfill one of its most basic functions: representation.
All the most prominent Darwinists proclaim naturalistic philosophy when they think it safe to do so.
Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.
Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.
Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.
There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.
My family lives in Vermont. I'm a law professor and I spend summers researching and writing in Vermont.
Nowadays, you have to hire a blogger to fend off the bloggers. This blogging game is playing out nicely.
Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.
Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.
You may think of Google as a single organic entity, but in 2011 it bought a different company every week.
Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.
Quid pro quo has an interesting history. It's originally a contract law term, not a criminal bribery term.
My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.
Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.
Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate.
One reason that a lot of people see me as cheerful and optimistic is that my expectations are really rather low.
I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.
Some trials look as much like the trial of an ordinary criminal case as a Hitchcock film looks like a home movie.
Facebook and Google are essentially an advertising duopoly, and we have almost no idea how their algorithms work.
I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.
The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.