I often set two alarm clocks because I’m afraid the first one won’t actually make me get up.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late ’60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I’m bad.

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

When I talk to college students about Spy, it’s like I’m describing something that happened in the 19th century. We were very lucky. We started Spy at a time when our generation had arrived at...

We got 200 e-mails (about it). Lots of people had the same reaction. They were assigned to read it in school and didn’t. We try to take things that sometimes people turn off of because...

It’s high and low (culture), and we’re casting a net wide. Almost everyone knows of these things; it’s not like we’re bringing them some obscure things.

We’re focusing on particular works films, books, pieces of music, architecture that deserve the name ‘icon’ and have this influence on our culture. Everybody knows those things, but almost because they’re icons, people don’t look...

It is so much the first among equals of that world.