To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

If for every error and every act of incompetence one can substitute an act of treason, many points of fascinating interpretation are open to the paranoid imagination.

Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.

It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.