The appeal of political correctness is that it attempts to change men's souls by altering how they speak. If one sufficiently reforms language, certain thoughts become unthinkable, and the world moves in the approved direction.

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…

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

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