Experience rarely teaches its lessons directly but instead requires interpretation through the filter of preconceived theories, prejudices, and desires. Where these are invincible, facts are weak things.

The refusal of free inquiry derives from an awareness of the fragility of the basis of religious faith; and since certainty is psychologically preferable to tr…

If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is 'pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,' then we can neithe…

Frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness-a most unattractive combination.