Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

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

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.