[T]he ideal of the rugged individual opening up the American West is still applied as an essential truth to ten million citizens living in the small area of New York City, as if ten million bulls should and could be squeezed into a china shop.

Just as the unleashing of ideas and myths in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries cleared the way for endless changes in state and social structures, so th…

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.

We talk endlessly of the individual and of individualism, for example, when any sensible glance at major issues indicates that we live in an era of great confo…

Le mythe de Promethee signifie que toute la tristesse du monde a son siege dans le foie. Mais qui oserait reconnaitre une verite si humble?

'To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and tim…

There is no such hour on the present clock as 6:30, New York time. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the …