Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism’s high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new...

We ”need” cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

In New York — whose subway trains in particular have been ”tattooed” with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame — not an inch of free space is spared except that of...

The earth is mankind’s ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it’s as though one of God’s checks has bounced.