Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering...
Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!
If we put our trust in the common sense of common men and 'with malice toward none and charity for all' go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic and social democracy a practical...
It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.
Doremus Jessup, so inconspicuous an observer, watching Senator Windrip from so humble a Boeotia, could not explain his power of bewitching large audiences. The Senator was vulgar, almost illiterate, a...
There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of ideas...
What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man...
The problem with call-in shows is quite simple, if you only dare to admit it: Democracy is best when not everyone can be heard all the time. If we are constantly reminded of all the stupid things that...
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no
Was i Doomed from the Start?Some pundits have also said my campaign was doomed from the start, either because of my weaknesses as a candidate or because America was caught up in a historic wave of ang...
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.
A note on language. Be even more suspicious than I was just telling you to be, of all those who employ the term we or us without your permission. This is another form of surreptitious conscription, de...
Almost all religions from Buddhism to Islam feature either a humble prophet or a prince who comes to identify with the poor, but what is this if not populism? It is hardly a surprise if religions choo...
You English, said Steenhold.You Americans, said Rud.When you aren't as fresh as paint, he said, you Americans are as stale as old cabbage leaves. I'm amazed at your Labour leaders, at the sort of thin...