The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.
Joseph EpsteinWhat distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
Joseph EpsteinI just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks
Joseph EpsteinPolitical correctness and so many of the political fashions of the day...could only be perpetrated in adolescent minds: minds, that is, that are trained to search out one thing and one thing only...Only an adolescent would find it worthwhile to devote his or her attention chiefly to the hunting of offenses, the possibility of slights, real and imagined.
Joseph Epstein