Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to be represented in proportion to their popularity and students were entitled to professors who share their political or social values. One of the more important functions of college - that it exposes young people to ideas and arguments they have not encountered at home - is redefined as a problem.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

It's not only corruption that distorts the utopian impulse when it begins to take some specific social shape. The prospect of more freedom stirs anxiety. We wa…

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral ind…

Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.

As for me, I am deeply a democrat; this is why I am in no way a socialist. Democracy and socialism cannot go together. You can't have it both ways.

I am sure of the fact that Fidel and Chavez are commanders of the forces of freedom in America, to liberate America and the world.