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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.