Prejudice

For my money the only ‘cocktail’ worthy of the name is the classic martini, together with the gimlet

It it is becoming plain that civilization cannot go on forever. Does this imply that it should never have existed at all?

Education on a mass scale is adjusted to and reflective of the limitations of the average citizen’s intellectual abilities and his competency

No one reads Waugh, Stendhal or Faulkner anymore, not to mention Hemingway

When everyone has power, no one has power

It’s a contemptible attempt at escaping the pain of being a man

It seems plausible that a small democracy is more intelligent and more wisely ruled than a modern mass one like America

Running our lives is the sort of project to which fallen humanity is unsuited

Since the French Revolution, left-wing politics have been essentially about revenge

Ceremony comes naturally to the British; Americans are suspicious of it

Can democracy in the West survive its attenuation in the US and UK?

Postmodern man is characterized by an obsession with technique and technology

Is the historical American culture being diluted, weakened and transformed by multiculturalism?

Failing to recognize the difference between learning and practical experience