Nobody Who's Ever Been To Gulag Is

Stick Me In A Confessional And Ask The Question: Sir, If You Had The Authority, Would You Forbid Smoking In America? You'd Get A Solemn And Contrite, Yes.

One Doesn't Read Jane Austen; One Re-reads Jane Austen.

Earlier This Month The State Department Gave The Umpteenth Performance Of Its Popular Play, Please Tread On Me, With Ceylon As Guest Star, And The Usual Cast.

The Superstition That The Hounds Of Truth Will Rout The Vermin Of Error Seems, Like A Fragment Of Victorian Lace, Quaint, But Too Brittle To Be Lifted Out Of The Showcase.

Conservatism Is The Tacit Acknowledgement That All That Is Finally Important In Human Experience Is Behind Us; That The Crucial Explorations Have Been Undertaken, And That It Is Given To Man To Know What Are The Great Truths That Emerged From Them.