We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath th….

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes..

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more o….

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken..

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the f….

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal..

John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a c….

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line..

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people'….

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics..

Donald Trump is american neo-fascist. The word "neo" meaning "new", has a lot to do with it, a new kind of fascist in our culture, dealing with an au….

At heart, Sussman was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question af….

There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and fill….

What will a Hillary Clinton presidency look like? The answer by now seems obvious: It will look like her presidential campaign, which in turn looks i….

The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and ravi….

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is pres….

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage..

Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disc….

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the min….

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas..

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we [journalists], too often are squand….