Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.