It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it-in other words, by becoming civilized-that men become fully human.

It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the…

When a population feels alienated from the legal system under which it lives, because that system fails to protect it from real dangers while lending succor an…

To make up for its lack of a moral compass, the British public is prey to sudden gusts of kitschy sentimentality followed by vehement outrage, encouraged by th…