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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.

I am a radical.

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.