We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
From Gore Vidal
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external.
Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
Like most readers, I tend to skip the acknowledgements at the beginnings of books: the 'To-My-Wife-Without-Whose-Invaluable-Assistance' kind of thing.
In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.
I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
7 perspectives
6 perspectives
5 perspectives
2 perspectives