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The life of the cosmopolitan, who puts right before country, and universal reason before the symbols of national belonging, need not be boring, flat, or lacking in love.
Noam Chomsky on the long history of American intervention.
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Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Philosophy at the University of Chicago.
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