It Is True That Too Much Belief

It Is Difficult To Think Of An Origin Without Wanting To Go Back Beyond It.

In The End, The Humanities Can Only Be Defended By Stressing How Indispensable They Are; And This Means Insisting On Their Vital Role In The Whole Business Of Academic Learning, Rather Than Protesting That, Like Some Poor Relation, They Don't Cost Much To Be Housed.

Capitalism Will Behave Antisocially If It Is Profitable For It To Do So, And That Can Now Mean Human Devastation On An Unimaginable Scale. What Used To Be Apocalyptic Fantasy Is Today No More Than Sober Realism.

If There Are Indeed Any Iron Laws Of History, One Of Them Is Surely That In Any Major Crisis Of The Capitalist System, A Sector Of The Liberal Middle Class Will Shift To The Left, And Then Shift Smartly Back Again Once The Crisis Has Blown Over.

Reading Is Not A Straightforward Linear Movement, A Merely Cumulative Affair: Our Initial Speculations Generate A Frame Of Reference Within Which To Interpret What Comes Next, But What Comes Next May Retrospectively Transform Our Original Understanding, Highlighting Some Features Of It And Backgrounding Others.