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

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

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

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

"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."

"Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness. The truths we resp…"

"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…"

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