Occupation: Editor Birth: 1953
We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper….
What the historian Elie Kedourie called "the Chatham House Version" - that toxic amalgam of smugness, moral relativism, and cherished feelings of gui….
Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application..
It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in Go….
Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing..
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself. It is beauty that animates aesthetic experience, making it so seductive….
Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow..