Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs.

The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.