I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked.
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
My business is the analytical framework.
Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live.
America is not just 'a nation with the soul of a church,' as G. K. Chesterton wrote in 1992: it is a nation with the mind of a crusade
If the Bible is a creation myth, it is an amorphous confusing one
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
I didn't really think a lot about religion, but I didn't really think a lot against it, either. I was one of those people who didn't go to church, but when I got in trouble I kinda pleaded with God - whoever that was.
We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.
The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.