Her book about the money in sex gives you the feeling of the sex in money.

Why should I admire somebody for his ability to manipulate me? In other realms of life, this talent is known as demagoguery.

For all its vanity about its own courage, the film is afraid of itself. It is soaked in the sweat of its idea of even-handedness. The death of innocents was an Israeli mistake but a...

Incorruptibility by money is the old story, … Now it’s incorruptibility by media.

The effort was to summon to the bosoms of her personnel the sort of man that Barrows likes to call “nice.” Nice meant rich.

Incorruptibility by money is the old story… Now it’s incorruptibility by media.

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an...

[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods — but rather in the appeal to...

The questions that we must ask ourselves, and that our historians and our children will ask of us, are these: How will what we create compare with what we inherited? Will we add to our...

The doctrine of “exit strategy” fundamentally misunderstands the nature of war and, more generally, the nature of historical action. for the knowledge of the end is not given to us at the beginning.