We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

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…

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

Experience rarely teaches its lessons directly but instead requires interpretation through the filter of preconceived theories, prejudices, and desires. Where …