"The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it."

"We all have to go one day, but pray God let it not be over Afghanistan. An unspeakable country filled with unspeakabl…"

"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination."

"A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of vi…"

"No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein."

"No chord in populism reverberates more strongly than the notion that the robust common sense of an unstained outsider…"

"Cockburn’s personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writ…"

"Alex kept the radical faith, steadily, constantly, going to the ends of the earth to cover the next story of revolt a…"

"Aye, think! Since time and life began, Your mind has only feared and slept; Of all the beasts they called you man Onl…"

"I can live as the boys live, and if God wishes the work to succeed, He will surely provide the means."