Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.

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

The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those who study in arts faculties.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.