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

- Carl Bernstein

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

- Carl Bernstein

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…

- Carl Bernstein

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…

- Carl Bernstein

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…

- Carl Bernstein

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…

- Carl Bernstein

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

- Carl Bernstein

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…

- Carl Bernstein

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

- Carl Bernstein