J’ai l’impression que les politiques aujourd’hui ne font guère l’histoire
μέγιστον δὲ ἐν πάσῃ πολιτείᾳ τὸ καὶ τοῖς νόμοις καὶ τῇ ἄλλῃ οἰκονομίᾳ οὕτω τετάχθαι ὥστε μὴ εἶναι τὰς ἀρχὰς κερδαίνειν
Die politische Bewegung lenkte durchaus nach dem Ziele der Despotie
it is a source of wonder to me how many people’s beliefs just happen to match the demands of institutional power
It is accepted wisdom in Israel that if one wishes to bury a subject, one creates a committee to study it
at … the XIVth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences … it transpired that several leading participants were unable to produce clicks and ejectives in words
Wherever you find suppression of minority opinion, there is no real democracy
Ukrainian medicine, as I first found it, was “eminence-based” and not “evidence-based”. Professors ruled the roost, would brook no criticism
he was letting his sources know what line they should adopt to maximize their chances of being quoted
Economics cannot claim to be a scientific field if its main theories are not subject to empirical testing and possible rejection