The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.

Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Good journalism should challenge people, not just mindlessly amuse them.

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.