How the World Works

Romania is a scandal you can’t even describe. T he Gypsies were treated just like the Jews in the Holocaust, but nobody’s battin ...

robbing somebody, oppressing them, dictating their lives, it’s a very rare person who can say: Look, I’m a monster. I’m doing th ...

The unmentionable five-letter word It’s a given that ideology and propaganda are phenomena of other cultures. They don’t exist i ...

Progressive Policy Institute, the Clinton think tank. It was a book you could buy at airport newsstands, part of the campaign li ...

which we work and the government who works for us. We pick them—they’re our servants. And that’s all there is in the world—no ot ...

color-free society. It’s possible. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but it’s perfectly possible that it would happen, and it ...

Human nature and self-image Is racism something that’s learned, or is it innately endowed? I don’t think either of those is the ...

his stuff once. (T here was supposed to be a chapter about him in one of my books—but the publisher thought it would be too arca ...

money for the family loses his or her job, so they don’t have enough food to eat. T he father is probably the strongest one in t ...

engaged in a sport that works like this: T hey walk around and find somebody walking the street. T hen one of the teenagers is p ...

It can’t happen here...can it? Huey Long [a populist Louisiana governor and senator in the early 1930s] once said that when fasc ...

population. Just a couple of years ago, there was a study of what people thought of evolution. The percentage of the population ...

Hume’s paradox You’ve said the real drama since 1776 has been the “relentless attack of the prosperous few upon the rights of th ...

How to break from the system of indoctrination and propaganda? You’ve said that it’s nearly impossible for individuals to do any ...

create the possibilities to do things together can be severe. It’s only if lots of people begin to do it, and do it seriously, t ...

that insurance companies and the health corporations they run will make plenty of money. T here are only two ways we could get t ...

“Outside the pale of intellectual responsibility” Canadian journalist David Frum has called you the “great Amer - ican crackpot. ...

section, there were a bunch of vicious lies about me and the Khmer Rouge. I wrote back a short letter responding, and they refus ...

SECRETS, LIES AND DEMOCRACY FIRST PUBLISHED 1994 11 US PRINTINGS 7 FOREIGN EDITIONS 142,000 COPIES IN PRINT ...

THE US Defective democracy Clinton’s national security advisor, Anthony Lake, is encouraging the enlargement of democracy overse ...