Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.

Americans use the word "dream" as often as psychoanalysts do.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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.

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