On the black cotton was printed a white skull and crossbones – the skull head grinning as if he were mocking her. The nun struggled for her breath and wanted to drop the evil little...

If clinical multiple personality is buried and forgotten, then the Manchurian Candidate Programs will be safe from public scrutiny. (p.141)

Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans – excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

How much?” We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome.

Most of everything is very little of not very much at all.

people are toxic, just smoke them in and smoke them out.

I wish somebody would have told my grandpa about the Cold War, so he could have at least put on a jacket.

The idea for the Guild first came up at a party. Your father and I met there and, well, I suppose that’s a story all its own. But we were both frustrated by the media...

Dear sirs, The cold war isn’t over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.Sincerely,Patriot

[Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff’s role in toppling communism.] Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example, … His life was a long struggle...

Never patronize your readers. That means don’t talk down to them.

It is truth, in the old saying, that is ‘the daughter of time,’ and the lapse of half a century has not left us many of our illusions. Churchill tried and failed to preserve one...

Walking a short way back along the embankment, almost to where the cross stood, Smiley took another look at the bridge, as if to establish whether anything had changed, but clearly it had not, and...

Peace imposible,war improbable.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical...

In 1953, Allen Dulles, then director of the USA Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), named Dr Sidney Gottlieb to direct the CIA’s MKULTRA programme, which included experiments conducted by psychiatrists to create amnesia, new dissociated identities,...

a useful idiot for Kremlin propaganda” by his former idolators; to see the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union regarded with fear and suspicion by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (which...

There is no monopoly of common senseOn either side of the political fenceWe share the same biologyRegardless of ideologyBelieve me when I say to youI hope the Russians love their children too[…]There’s no such thing...

And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This rather shallow piece appeared in the New York Times magazine, and...

Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the...

I dispute the right of conservatives to be automatically complacent on these points. My own Marxist group took a consistently anti-Moscow line throughout the ‘Cold War,’ and was firm in its belief that that Soviet...

We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn’t have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty...

Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan’s views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of the United Nations, the unreliability of Europe, the perfidy of the Third World...