A ”just war” is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the...

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

Why did they ban that?

Regulation of sexual behavioris the preferred route to wider socialcontrol.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination.

Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea...

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Next week Reagan will probably announce that American scientists have discovered that the entire U.S. agricultural surplus can be compacted into a giant tomato one thousand miles across, which will be suspended above the Kremlin...

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

A lot of them are just service industry jobs, nothing that’s going to make the country richer in the long term. Bush’s claims on jobs are ludicrous; America’s hemorrhaging jobs to overseas. The industry face...

The weapon of the advocate is the sword of the soldier, not the dagger of the assassin

The pack slumbered and only a few watchdogs rattled their chains.