Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.