The Major Political Event Of

An Intellectual May Be Defined As A Man Who Speaks With General Authority About A Subject On Which He Has No Particular Competence.

It Is Ironic To Watch The Churches, Including Large Sections Of My Own Religion, Surrendering To The Spirit Of Modernity At The Very Moment When Modernity Itself Is Undergoing A Kind Of Spiritual Collapse.

Anyone Who Knows Anything About Journalism Knows That Reporters Are Rarely In A Position To Investigate Anything. They Lack The Authority To Subpoena Witnesses, To Cross-examine, To Scrutinize Official Records. They Are Lucky To Get Their Phone Calls Returned.

Somehow, The Fact That More Poor People Are On Welfare, Receiving More Generous Payments, Does Not Seem To Have Made This Country A Nice Place To Live - Not Even For The Poor On Welfare, Whose Condition Seems Not Noticeably Better Than When They Were Poor And Off Welfare. Something Appears To Have Gone Wrong; A Liberal And Compassionate Social Policy Has Bred All Sorts Of Unanticipated And Perverse Consequences.

If You Care For The Quality Of Life In Our American Democracy, Then You Have To Be For Censorship.