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

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

When the cold war ended, I thought, as no doubt did many others, that the age of ideology was over. Again like many others, I underestimated man's need for tra…

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…