We Need History, Not To Tell Us

Historicism And Cultural Relativism Actually Are A Means To Avoid Testing Our Own Prejudices And Asking, For Example, Whether Men Are Really Equal Or Whether That Opinion Is Merely A Democratic Prejudice.

Freedom Of The Mind Requires Not Only, Or Not Even Especially The Absence Of Legal Constraints But The Presence Of Alternative Thoughts.

Culture As Art Is The Peak Expression Of Man's Creativity, His Capacity To Break Out Of Nature's Narrow Bounds, And Hence Out Of The Degrading Interpretation Of Man In Modern Natural And Political Science.

[rock And The Intellectual Left] Must Both Be Interpreted As Parts Of The Cultural Fabric Of Late Capitalism. Their Success Comes From The Bourgeois' Need To Feel That He Is Not Bourgeois.

Only When The True Ends Of Society Have Nothing To Do With The Sublime Does "culture" Become Necessary As A Veneer To Cover Over The Void. Culture Can At Best Appreciate The Monuments Of Earlier Faith; It Cannot Produce Them.