"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

"Although there was much to criticize in American domestic and foreign policy, what struck me was the one-sidedness, u…"

"The United States was taxed with following a policy whose logic was "genocide" for helping South Vietnam deal with "a…"

"The grim consequences of … Hanoi's victory are now incontestable. The record of the last decade has brought a realiza…"

"I turned to Brecht and asked him why, if he felt the way he did about Jerome and the other American Communists, he ke…"

"It is better to be a live jackal than a dead lion--for jackals, not men. Men who have the moral courage to fight inte…"

"Herbert Marcuse made a lengthy, impassioned response. What good was the Voting Rights Act accomplishing, he said, sin…"

"Although Bertrand Russell suffered unpopularity in some quarters for his role as a political dissenter, he enjoyed th…"

"As Adolf Berle, a fellow cold warrior, once remarked, 'Being vindicated by history is cold comfort.' For one thing, t…"

"I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its wo…"