"All children are afraid of the night; when they grow up, they are still afraid, but more afraid of admitting it. ("Ni…"

"When the train of history makes a sharp turn, said Lenin, the passengers who do not have a good grip on their seats a…"

"The book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in…"

""What statesmanship! What vision! What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke…"

"Once upon a time, when the Yewnited States was just a little shaver among the nations, but already very spoiled along…"

"Toscanini was hailing a great artist, but that voice was more than a magnificent personal talent. It was the religiou…"

"In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas. ("The Circles…"

"Reinhold Niebuhr's new orthodoxy is the oldtime religion put through the intellectual wringer. It is a re-examination…"

"Two faiths were on trial . Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies... At heart, the…"

"The Wizard of Oz (M. G. M.) should settle an old Hollywood controversy: whether fantasy can be presented on the scree…"