Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

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

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

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom. Young adults, he thought, should be allowed to develop their capabilities in their distinctive way.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.