politics

"The black subject reveals the inability of social movements grounded in Gramscian discourse to think of white supremacy as the base and thereby calls into question their claim to elaborate a comprehen…"

"Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war t…"

"As a filmmaker, I'm not interested in 9/11 it's too small, history overwhelms it. The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in…"

"Syllables govern the world."

"Wales voted Leave, but it does not mean that the Welsh government should sit back and let Brexit take its course"

"Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery. Another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy-and it was…"

"Impeachment, of course, is, for the most part, only a theoretical guardrail constitutionally. The real guardrail is elections, which Trump faces in November 2020. Should he win, the Twenty-Second Amen…"

"Ranting about "political correctness" is best read as "I can't really deal with the merits of your interpretation, so I'll deride it largely because it doesn't reinforce my own preferences and prejudi…"

"If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he needs so sorely, he would begin fattening a missionary in the White House yard come Wednesday."

"Unfortunately, the 2008 election was not an anomaly. In 2006, only 22 percent of nearly 2.6 million military voters cast ballots, compared to 41 percent of the general voting-age population. The U.S. …"

"Politics was a struggle for power, in its purest and simplest terms. If the voters were lucky, the winner would go on to improve their lot, because he would need their votes next time. Or because he e…"

"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."

"Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians."

"The hayseeds think we are like the Indians to the National Government—that is, sort of wards of the State, who don’t know how to look after ourselves and have to be taken care of by the Republicans of…"

"He was a man who was prepared to discuss topics for the improvement of sports in the country."

"Athenian democracy was different from the much later American form, not only because it was the expression of a single city-state but because it was a direct , rather than a representative democracy. …"

"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."

"Now we have a totalitarian government. And the totalitarian government wants to watch everybody, total surveillance of everyone. They listen to the telephone conversations, they look at your credit ca…"

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

"That is a widespread myth, that it is possible to spend money with nobody paying for it. You have everybody screaming that we ought to have new, bigger, more generous government programs. Where are we…"