The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.