Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Perfection seems sterile; it is final, no mystery in it; it’s a product of an assembly line.

Rivera’s admiration for Stalin was equaled only by his admiration for Henry Ford. By the 1920s and ‘30s, nearly every industrial country in Europe and Latin America, as well as the Soviet Union, had adopted...

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They...