News Is What People Want To Keep

Journalists Who Make Mistakes Get Sued For Libel; Historians Who Make Mistakes Get To Publish A Revised Edition.

Presidents Are Afraid To Lose Wars. They're Afraid To Be Outflanked On The Right By The Militarists. They Don't Want To Be Seen As Soft On Either Communism Or Soft On Terrorism Or Whatever. So Presidents Are Constantly Tugged Away From Their Domestic Commitments To Foreign Policy.

Beauty Is An Expression Of That Rapture Of Being Alive.

Sharing Is The Essence Of Teaching. It Is, I Have Come To Believe, The Essence Of Civilization...without It, The Imagination Is But The Echo Of The Self, Trapped In A Soundproof Chamber, Reverberating Upon Itself Until It Is Spent In Exhaustion Or Futility.

Our Great Progressive Struggles Have Been Waged To Make Sure Ordinary Citizens, And Not Just The Rich And Privileged, Share In The Benefits Of A Free Society.