Printing links the present with forever. It carries personal identity into realms unknown.

When media make war against each other, it is a case of world-views in collision.

We can make the trains run on time but if they are not going where we want them to go, why bother?

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.

Build an "inclusive narrative" that goes beyond race, class, religion, etc., so that all may participate in the "the great debates".

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.