In the old days it was just a matter of being caught smoking cigarettes in the band room or drinking beer at lunchtime in the parking lot - and those crimes were serious, at the time, but they were not so serious as to get you expelled from the system forever. That is the hallmark of the Reagan Administration - a Punishment Ethic that permeates the whole infrastructure of American life and eventually gets down to George Orwell's notion, in Animal Farm, that 'all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.'

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absol…

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. You can't be objective about Nixon.

I have spent half my life trying to get away from journalism, but I am still mired in it - a low trade and a habit worse than heroin, a strange seedy world ful…

They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing th…

Fifteen years ago, when the Cold War ended, many of us hoped for a new world order to emerge. A world order rooted in human solidarity - a world order that wou…

Equality of possessions is no doubt right, but, as men could not make might obey right, they have made right obey might. (299)