On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empir...e died.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before... air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents--or at least their staffs--never stop making mischief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever man...aged to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity--much less dissent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter ho...w true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Eit...her the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candida...tes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because ...that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
psychologist Ultimately it's all a matter of style. What it comes down to is this: Do you spell Jennifer with a J or G? That'...s a class division. As a populist, I'm all for G.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »