In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point..

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable..

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not..

To harness the power of television for the education of our nation's children, everyone must get involved - television programmers, government leader….

Few things concentrate the mind more efficiently than the necessity of saying what you mean. It brings you face to face with what you are talking abo….

Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and middle socioeconomic status, beca….

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value..

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will..

Not communicating saves energy; it keeps people from worrying about things they cannot do anything about; and it eliminates an enormous amount of use….

We live in a big and marvelously varied world. Television ought to reflect that..

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomat….

In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to b….

Many Americans feel themselves inferior in the presence of anyone with an English accent, which is why an English accent has become fashionable in te….