"Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfecti…"

"The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean Algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, t…"

"If America is the culmination of Western white civilisation, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then th…"

"We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is d…"

"Often their [media] decisions are cast as judgments about “good taste”—always a repressive standard when invoked by i…"

"Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously."

"The problem is not that people remember through photographs, but that they remember only the photographs."

"The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a gre…"

"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there …"

"In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art, Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian …"