One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.
(n.) The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.
There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is possible to have a thought without a feeling. It isn't....
Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.
It is arrogant to believe that you know what is true for you. Surely you know in your own life with you that you cannot be trusted.
What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a...
Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History...
Why should we cherish objectivity, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not conceali...
Quietly, dispassionately, Russell would make sure the senator understood not only the reasons why he should take the same position on the bill that Russell was taking, but the reasons why he should ta...
Only he who is free with his time is free with his opinion.
I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect...