There was a time when photographers were thought to be socially secondary, and, hence, not dangerous. Lincoln was more important than Brady. It didn'….

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts..

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved..

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A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from t….

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built origi….

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-c….

Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me witho….

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements..

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a difficult p….

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing..