“It’s all very well in theory, but it doesn’t work in practice.”

In its loving attention to the smallest details of belief, Naipaul’s book is itself a potent attack on the economically reductionist image of the “Asian tiger.”

Miliband was the right choice for Labour, and his selection remains promising

Bernhard’s fixation with how even the most well-intended ideas can—and logically must—end in terror, lends his work freshness that makes it well worth revisiting today.

I’d been dreaming of swimming through a vast black sea, and in the morning my bed was an island.

In the atmosphere of the British election, in which the Labour-Lib Dem-Tory menus seem about equally unappetizing, the opportunity to create a coherent vision for a new and better society is a very tempting one.

The volcano opened a window onto a reality that resists explanation

Accompanying the rise in political correctness, the refusal to adhere to one point of view has been a shift from a conversation broadly centered around ethics to one focused on the intricacies of policy.

Why do people visit authors’ graves? What do they expect to find?

No matter how difficult, it’s essential to consider each disaster individually, resisting the urge to run it into a trend line.