Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.