"We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every…"

"The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [jo…"

"The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discours…"

"The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substit…"

"The lowest form of popular culture—lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth …"

"Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing."

"An interviewer once asked him whether he had any advice for young writers starting out. "No," he answered, "if a writ…"

"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"… Hassan promotes the BITE model as a scientific method for identifying “destructive cults,” claiming it can distingu…"