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

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

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

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

The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the way that it says it. To read like this is to set aside the ‘literariness’ of the work – the fact that it is a poem or play or novel, rather than an account of the incidence of soil erosion in Nebraska.

It is silly to call fat people "gravitationally challenged", a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.