No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider is the best medicine for an ailing polity. Caligula doubtless got big cheers from the plebs when he installed his horse… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
By 1967, J. Edgar Hoover had concluded that the Black Panther Party had replaced the Communist Party as the gravest threat to national security. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
