Are you more likely to tolerate drivel than you were four years ago? I think the answer is yes. Four years of Reagan has deadenedthe senses against a barrage of uninterrupted nonsense.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

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