Freeman Dyson "Heretical Thoughts About Science and Society."

Quotation

"Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation."

V.I. Lenin  
The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism, 1913.

Ben Ginsberg "The Fall of the Faculty: Governing Universities in the 21st Century"

Ben Ginsberg is a Professor at John's Hopkins whose book The Fall of the Faculty (published in 2011 by OUP) details the corporatization of the American University system and the subsequent disenfranchisement of professional scholars. In the not to distant past the faculty of a College was the College. That era is over. Now professors are paid employees that provide students with a feel good service that gives the "right image" that administrators want. No longer is education about teaching; it has become an overpriced overly bureaucratic playground that manufactures credentials and perpetuates a culture of administration for administration. He shows how skyrocketing costs, fewer tenure positions, and even the fiscal irresponsibility of current paradigms on education can trace their roots to the growth of a paradisaical administrative class that is threatening to  consume the whole system. This is a must read for anyone interested in education. This  book can be found at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

An Open Letter to Sec. of State John Kerry

Dear Sec. Kerry:

American warmongering is becoming quite tiresome. Between the illegal wars, covert wars, rumors of wars, acts of war, and penchant for provoking the rest of the world your credibility is somewhat tarnished. This is not to say that your justification for going to war is a ball-faced lie; it is just a little bit strange that you can justify going to war with a different country every six months. Should the people of the world really feel sorry for the Obama Administration in not being allowed to enjoy the blessings of peace by malevolent parties, or should we just assume that certain paranoid psychopathy that hijacked US foreign policy during the Bush years has continued unabated. 

Nonetheless, American bombardment of Syria is possibly the worst imaginable response to the recent chemical attack in Damascus. To be frank, I don't believe you that your intelligence has confirmed that the Assad regime was responsible. However, logically there are only three possible culprits--you (through your common friends with Al-Qaeda, the Syrian Rebles), Assad, or none of the above. I will ignore "none of the above" because the potential wider ramifications of that are literally infinite.

Noam Chomsky (July, 2013) "The Corporatization of the University"