What we are seeing today is a new iteration of that very old impulse in America: the quest of some of the propertied (always, it bears noting, a particular ideological extreme —and some would say gree...
One South Carolinian who grew up early in the twentieth century did not learn that the South had lost the war until he was twelve years old. ‘It was one of the saddest awakenings I ever had,’ he recal...
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terribl...
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype-...
When someone makes a spectacular ass of himself, it's always in a French restaurant, never a Japanese or Italian one. The French are the people who slap one another with gloves and wear scarves to cov...
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