A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours
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.
My business is the analytical framework.
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.
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?
Stop your grinnin and drop your linen
We both grew into the people we wanted each other to be.
Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.