Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.