"There are very few people who are going to make it through life without having some kind of interaction with the criminal justice system."

"There are two problems for a society that's trying to make a transition to a more free and just society. One is to understand what's happening. The other is to figure out how to change it. And the sec…"

"The intellectual's role is to speak the truth and to expose lies."

"The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control — 'indoctrination,' we might say — exercised through the mass media."

"The media serves the powerful."