“The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.” StatesAgePastClassDegreesMythAssumptionSuperiorityUtopiaPopulist Book:The Age of Reform Source: The Age of Reform
“On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, [Bush's] assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.” Has BeensStatesUnitedUnited StatesIssuesEffectsPolicyStrangeInternationalIraqDestroyedCombinationArroganceAssumptionInvolvingIncompetenceOutlaw Author:Fareed Zakaria
“Chomsky proceeds on the almost unthinkably subversive assumption that the United States should be judged by the same standards that it preaches (often at gunpoint) to other nations he is nearly the only person now writing who assumes a single standard of international morality not for rhetorical effect, but as a matter of habitual, practically instinctual conviction.” ShouldWritingPersonsMatterStatesNationsUnitedUnited StatesEffectsMoralityStandardsAssumingInternationalConvictionAssumptionJudgedHabitualSubversiveRhetorical Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports