The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

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

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

So much for the crusade against drugs . . . all America is actually doing is consolidating its position as the biggest dealer in addictive and lethal substances on the planet, waging war on all rivals, whether they take the form of the Thai domestic tobacco industry or the Colombian cocaine cartels.

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

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.