"Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic ex…"

"The true democrat wishes to share the great works of culture with all who are able to appreciate them; the egalitaria…"

"Some people regard the astonishing collapse of manners and civility in our society as a superficial event. They are w…"

""History,” Bagehot wrote, “is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cos…"

"And let’s not forget “Dane-Geld”: It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and…"

"As with most revolutions, the counterculture's call for total freedom quickly turned into a demand for total control.…"

"We - the industrialized, technologized world - have never been richer. And yet to an extraordinary extent we in the W…"

"The Beats are crucial to an understanding of America's cultural revolution not least because in their lives, their pr…"

"Ginsberg turned out to be depressingly prescient when, after a heated argument with Norman Podhoretz in 1958, he yell…"

"What is not possible is to combine the pursuit of pleasure and the enjoyment of comfort with the characteristic pleas…"