"Journalism is a character defect. I think most non-journalists would agree with this. It is life lived at a safe remo…"

"Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments."

"When he let Kennedy use his column to send signals to Nikita Khrushchev, or lent his skill to Vandenberg to reinforce…"

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"For we Americans, though we are the most restless race in the world, with the possible exception of the Bedouins, alm…"

"Chicago is stupefying. It knows no rules, and I know none by which to judge it. It stands apart from all the cities i…"

"Kansas used to believe in Populism and free silver. It now believes in hot summers and a hot hereafter."

"It was a Native Son who, when asked by an Englishman, visiting the United States for the first time, to name the Seve…"

"The Arkansawyers are of the type of the old Hoosiers, Crackers, Pikers, and the Big Smoky mountaineers. The Hoosiers …"

"Believing that your hypothesis must be correct before all the evidence is gathered encourages you to interpret the ev…"