Americans Use The Word "dream"

Reading A Text Is More Like Tracing This Process Of Constant Flickering Than It Is Like Counting The Beads On A Necklace.

The Role Of The Intellectual, So It Is Said, Is To Speak Truth To Power. Noam Chomsky Has Dismissed This Pious Tag On Two Grounds. For One Thing, Power Knows The Truth Already; It Is Just Busy Trying To Conceal It. For Another, It Is Not Those In Power Who Need The Truth, But Those They Oppress.

Historical Determinism Is A Recipe For Political Quietism.

It Is Silly To Call Fat People "gravitationally Challenged", A Self-righteous Fetishism Of Language Which Is No More Than A Symptom Of Political Frustration.

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.