"The judgment of taste is therefore not a cognitive judgment, hence not a logical one, but is rather aesthetic, by whi…"

"For himself alone a human being abandoned on a desert island would not adorn either his hut or himself, nor seek out …"

"Kant had two conceptions of art, and his second theory of artworks cannot support his reasons for taking up judgments…"

"However, there are ways of trying to strangle ideas they do not involve straight forward attempts at censorship or in…"

"The explicit distinction between those who are fit only to study and those who are history’s actors not only expresse…"

"First and foremost among the vectors of anti-intellectualism are the mass media."

"It is not that television, or any of its successors in the world of video, was designed as an enemy of active intelle…"

"Well-off professionals, including a fair number of intellectuals, have proved especially vulnerable to the bromide th…"

"It is a fine thing for tired parents to gain a quiet hour for themselves by mesmerizing small children with videos—wh…"

"Memory, which depends on the capacity to absorb ideas and information through exposition and to connect new informati…"