Kerouac was 'locked in the Cold War and the first Asian debacle' in 'the gray, chill, militaristic silence, [...] the intellective void [...] the spiritual drabness.

The world that [Kerouac] trembling stepped out into in that decade was a bitter, gray one.

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.

If you're working with words, it's got to be poetry. I grew up with Kerouac. If he hadn't wrote On The Road, the Doors would have never existed. Morrison read …

There was also Himmler the crusader and visionary, the man who built a romantic castle in a German forest where the knights of the S.S., many of whom could har…

George W. Bush is a man who seems to be the center of his own universe. He seems to have learned little of human nature and even less of human history over his…

American militarism today is an unintended byproduct of the reaction to the 1960s and Vietnam.