Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

Love is a weakness which converts even the strongest minds as its slave and makes them sing its tune.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag!

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

A boy's best friend is his mother.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

I was never good at copying. I was better at doing my own thing!

The consequence of Mr. Bush's and Blair's historic lie that the reason for invading Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, is that everything is being doubted.

America is the first country where people go to the poor house in their car.